Yolŋu artist Dhopiya Yunupiŋu’s work speaks to the pre-colonisation international trade with Indonesia and handed-down memories of boat sails appearing on the horizon, ready for trade in sea cucumbers (trepang) with the Yolŋu people.
This exhibition features new works on bark, part of a series Yunupiŋu initiated in early 2024. Their fine lines made using the marwat or line brush, handcrafted from a few strands of straight hair, usually from a young girl; a distinctive Yolŋu painting apparatus and style, made manifest in its most reductive form.
Dhopiya Yunupiŋu, Marwat, 2024, earth pigments on stringybark, 128 × 84cm. Photograph: Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre. Courtesy the artist, Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre, Northern Territory and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
Sullivan+Strumpf
30 January to 22 February 2025
Sydney
