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    Into the Blue

    Jul 01, 2022 3 minutes
    WRITER
    Kelly Gellatly

    While Djapu artist Dhambit Munuŋgurr seemed to burst onto the scene with her tremendous installation of vibrant blue bark paintings and larrakitj (hollow logs) for the National Gallery of Victoria Triennial in 2020, she had in fact been painting for over 40 years, since the age of 12.

    Munuŋgurr comes from an extraordinarily creative lineage; one where art, politics and Yolŋu lore coexist. Her artist grandfather Muŋgurrawuy Yunupiŋu (c.1904-1979) was a contributor to the 1963 Yirrkala Church Panels—the first significant claim to land by Indigenous Australians through the

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