Rerrkirrwaŋa Munuŋgurr

Rerrkirrwaŋa Munuŋgurr is a distinguished Djapu artist from Waṉḏawuy, belonging to the Dhuwa moiety. The youngest daughter of the late senior leader and painter Djutjadjutja, she absorbed her father’s discipline and precision from an early age, often completing his works before establishing her own authority to paint. Emerging from one of northeast Arnhem Land’s most accomplished artistic families, including her sister Marrnyula and her mother Noŋgirrŋa Marawili, she has developed a practice defined by extraordinary refinement and technical control. Rerrkirrwaŋa is renowned for her meticulous marwat, the human-hair brush she fashions herself, allowing her to produce some of the finest linework seen in contemporary Yolŋu art. Her paintings, grounded in the sacred designs of the Gumatj clan through her husband Yalpi Yunupiŋu, explore the ancestral power of Gurtha (fire) through shimmering diamond motifs. Her work has been recognised nationally and internationally, including winning the Bark Painting Award at the 2009 Telstra NATSIAA and exhibiting at Chiaroscuro Gallery in Santa Fe.

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