- Artist: Robyn Djunginy
- Art Centre: Bula'bula Arts
- Region: Arnhem Land
Artwork Story
Robyn Djunginy is a daughter of acclaimed artist Ngulmarmar and is a sister of the renowned artists George Milpurrurru and Charlie Djurritjini. Perhaps best known for her woven bottles, Djunginy is a highly acclaimed fibre artist and painter who has participated in a number of significant exhibitions.
Djunginy draws on the heritage of her mother’s group, the Marrangu Djinang, who have strong connections to the water goanna and the honey ancestor. Her work in fibre bottle forms refers to a site of the honey ancestors near the airstrip in Ramingining. When John Kluge visited Ramingining in 1989 and commissioned a large body of work, Djunginy and a number of other Ganalbingu women produced a suite of fine bark paintings which was the first body of work to come into Bula’bula Arts for the Kluge Commission. Djunginy aligned the cross-hatching in her paintings at right angles, similar to the warp and weft of her weavings for which she was already renown. Her subject matter in the Kluge artworks comprises the flotsam and fauna of her homelands in the freshwater of the Arafura Swamp. Marra, leaves, are a favourite depiction.
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