Title
Djirriḏiḏi giwiḻirr (Garrawurra conical basket)
2020
Artist
Margaret Rarru Garrawurra
Australia
29 Jan 1940 –
Language group: Ḻiyagawumirr Garrawurra, Arnhem region
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Milingimbi
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Central Arnhem Land
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Date
- 2020
- Media category
- Weaving
- Materials used
- natural dyes on pandanus
- Dimensions
- 31.5 x 17.0 cm
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Aboriginal Art Collection Benefactors 2021
- Location
- Yiribana Gallery
- Accession number
- 73.2021
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rarru Garrawurra. Licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd
- Artist information
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Margaret Rarru Garrawurra
Works in the collection
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About
Margaret Rarru is a senior artist, master weaver, and respected Elder. She was born at Galiwin’ku (Elcho Island) and now lives between her mother’s Country of Laŋarra (Howard Island) and Yurrwi (Milingimbi Island). Harvesting and processing the materials from her homelands, each work by Rarru resonates with cultural knowledge of the Djaŋ'kawu Sisters. The mindirr (basket) is a ceremonial and practical object used by the sisters as they travelled across Country creating the landforms present in parts of Arnhem Land today. In this work Rarru employs the Djaŋ'kawu Sisters Liyagawumirr Djirri-didi (ceremonial body paint designs) to create miny'tji (colour and pattern) on the mindirr (basket). The simplistic lines represent a series of sites, stories and custodianship rights that are known to those from this Country.
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Places
Where the work was made
Milingimbi
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Gallery 1: Yiribana Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, North Building, Sydney, 03 Dec 2022–2023