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Now showing in Darwin
Until 15 July 2012
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Yalangbara: Art of the Djang'kawu is an exhibition of captivating Aboriginal artworks by the Marika family from north-east Arnhem Land exploring the journey of the Djang'kawu ancestors.
The Marikas are highly regarded as talented artists, educationalists, cultural ambassadors, environmentalists, and activists.
This exhibition centres upon the family's most significant clan estate at Yalangbara, or Port Bradshaw, south of Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem Land. The region is regarded as the original site of human and cultural origins associated with the Djang'kawu ancestors.
See works produced at the Yirrkala mission in the 1930s, rare crayon drawings commissioned by Dr Ronald Berndt, monumental barks from the 1950s, and a series of contemporary prints, fibre items, barks, and carvings.
Land rights, copyright and the interrelationship between people, their art and the land were also explored in the exhibition which includes the Djang'kawu digging stick, normally exhibited next to the famous Yirrkala bark petition in Parliament House.
Discover more about the exhibition
Travelling details
The exhibition can also be seen at the following venue:
Western Australian Museum
November 2012 to February 2013
Yalangbara was on show at the National Museum of Australia from 7 December 2010 to 25 September in the First Australians Focus Gallery.
A touring exhibition presented by the National Museum of Australia, developed by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in partnership with the Marika family and supported by the Northern Territory Government.
Supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australian cultural material across Australia.
