Word: mawurndjul
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...felt in the waterlilies and water holes that are believed to be manifestations of its journey. Ngalyod's appetite is thought to have forged the local landforms, and one gets a sense of this in Marralwanga's Ngalyod and Yawkyawk, 1983, in which the two creatures consume each other. Mawurndjul's brother Jimmy Njiminjuma pushed the concept even further in his large-scale serpents from the mid '80s, which wrestle with the very edges of the frame. But no one inhabits Ngalyod better than Mawurndjul, whose increasingly abstract depictions give an insider view of the supreme being. "Where I live...
...late Crusoe Kuningbal, then jump to the mimih of his late wife Lena Kurinya, daughter Melba Gunjarrwanga and son Crusoe Kurddal. Next, leapfrog to the Lorrkkon logs of Ivan Namirrkki, son of the late bark pioneer Peter Marralwanga, then to those of Namirrkki's sister Kay Lindjuwanga, her husband Mawurndjul, and his siblings James Iyuna and Susan Marawarr...
...What electrifies this artistic forest is the use of rarrk. This distinctive cross-hatching is tartan for the Kuninjku clan. It varies from the rougher markings of former rock painter Lofty Bardayal Nadjamerrek to the increasingly refined rarrk of Mawurndjul, who paints shimmering spiderwebs of yellow, black and red. The technique began with Yirawala (1903-1976), who in the '60s first transposed men's ceremonial body designs to bark. The elaborate cross-hatching also relates to the weaving of the giant barramundi fish traps, mandjabu...
...Mawurndjul is the Michelangelo of rarrk. "Through some kind of magic I am a chemist man," he has said...
...were derided as "rubbish." It's taken European eyes to turn them into fine-art gold. Czech artist and anthropologist Karel Kupka began amassing barks in the '50s, and his collection will feature in the African and Oceanic art museum opening at Quai Branly, Paris, in 2006. Meanwhile, a Mawurndjul survey is planned for Basel's Museum der Kulturen next year...