Artist: Guruwuy Murrinyina

‘Guwarguwarmirri’ – Colours of the Rainbow

Expanding the palette beyond the template of four primary Yolŋu colours – black, red, yellow and white – allows the story to come alive. The prismatic shimmer of the snake scales or the stagnant billabong mirrors the colours of the rainbow. In this case Wititj – the Rainbow Serpent. In technicolour!An old song in a […]

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Guruwuy Murrinyina

Born in 1975, Guruwuy Murrinyina lives with her son at a very remote homeland in Gangan, in the Northern Territory. Gangan is a village of ten houses adjacent to a chain of billabongs, inland from Blue Mud Bay. The nearest town is a four hour drive along dirt roads. This is where her art centre […]

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