This exhibition features new bark paintings, larrakitj, and works on board that extend Naminapu Maymuru-White’s lifelong engagement with Yolŋu cosmology and exploration of the convergence of two realms: the earthly and the celestial.
Central to Maymuru-White’s practice is Milŋiyawuy – the milky way stretching above in the sky and seemingly echoed below in the waters of Blue Mud Bay on the eastern coast of Arnhem Land, revered as a great reservoir of the spirits of the Maŋgalili, and a passage to the afterlife – represented with dense, luminous, and richly layered star-fields.
Naminapu Maymuru-White, Milŋiyawuy River of Stars, 2025, painting on board, 185 × 122cm. Photograph: Mark Pokorny. Courtesy the artist, Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre, Northern Territory and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney/Melbourne
Sullivan+Strumpf
30 July to 23 August 2025
Sydney
