Binyinyuwuy
(Australia 1928–1982)
- Language group
- Djambarrpuyungu, Arnhem region
- Title
- Djeritmingin Spirit - Woolen River
- Other titles:
- The spirit Djeritmingin
- Place of origin
-
Milingimbi →
Central Arnhem Land →
Northern Territory →
Australia
- Year
- collected 1960
- Media category
- Bark painting
- Materials used
- natural pigments on bark
- Dimensions
-
72.4 x 44.5cm
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Stuart Scougall 1960
- Accession number
- IA46.1960
- Copyright
- © Binyinyiwuy/Bula'Bula Arts. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney
- Location
- Yiribana Gallery
- Further information
Djeritmingin is shown as a fish cooped up in a spring pool of fresh water who wanted to get through impassable rock (shown in saw tooth fashion). The two small fish, his children, tried unsuccessfully to find a way out so he then forced his way out with his legs and traveled to the brackish water where salt water meets fresh water at river mouths. He now resides there and is said to make welcoming rain to visitors crossing the sea. Cross-hatching at each end and the center represents underwater rocks.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2005
- Bibliography (2)
-
Kasper König (Germany) (Author), Emily Joyce Evans (Germany) (Author), Falk Wolf (Germany) (Author), Remembering forward: Australian Aboriginal painting since 1960, Cologne, 2010, 103 (colour illus.), 118. cat.no. 44
Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Author), Steven Miller (Australia) (Author), Tony Tuckson (Egypt; England; Australia, b.1921, d.1973) (Author), James Scougall (Australia) (Author), Mollie Gowing (Australia, d.2009) (Author), Harry Messel (Author), Craig Brush (Author), Ronald Fine (Australia) (Author), Alison Fine (Australia) (Author), Gordon Davies (Australia) (Author), Rosalind Davies (Author), Christopher Hodges (Australia, b.1954) (Author), Helen Eager (Australia, b.1952) (Author), Rosemary Gow (Australia) (Author), Sandra Phillips (Author), Daphne Wallace (Australia, b.1964) (Author), Ken Watson (Australia) (Author), Gamarada, Sydney, 1996, 38 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (3)
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Purchases and Acquisitions for 1960, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 22 Mar 1961–23 Apr 1961.
Gamarada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 15 Nov 1996–16 Feb 1997.
Remembering Forward: An Exhibition of Major Australian Indigenous Artists, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 20 Nov 2010–20 Mar 2011.
