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Banduk Marika

バンダク・マリカ

Banduk Marika

Aliases: Banduk Mamburra Wananamba Marika / Dr B Marika

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1954-10-13 （Yirrkala, Northern Territory, Australia）
Died
2021-07-12 （Yirrkala (presumed)） age 66
Nationality
Australian
Languages
Yolngu Matha, English
Religion
Yolngu traditional beliefs
Residence History
Yirrkala, Northern Territory → Darwin, Northern Territory → Sydney, New South Wales → Yirrkala, Northern Territory

Career

Occupations
artist, printmaker, environmental activist, cultural preservationist
Active Years
1972-2021
Affiliations
Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Arts Centre, National Gallery of Australia board, Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory board
Memberships
Yirrkala-Dhanbul Community Council, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council
Influenced By
Mawalan 1 Marika
Influenced
Ruby Alderton, Dhuwarrwarr Marika

Education

Yirrkala mission school
Period: 幼少期から15歳まで
Year of Graduation: 1969
Country: Australia
Educated until age 15

Awards

Red Ochre Award
2001
Category: 視覚芸術
Organization: Australia Council
Result: 受賞
Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (Bark Painting)
2005
Work: Yalangbara
Category: 樹皮絵
Organization: Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Result: 受賞
Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
2019
Organization: Governor-General of Australia
Result: 受賞
Honorary Doctorate from Flinders University
2018
Organization: Flinders University
Result: 受賞
Senior Territorian of the Year
2020
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Djanda and the Sacred Waterhole

1988 Linocut

Linocut depicting a significant Rirratjingu clan story from the Djang'kawu at Yalangbara.

Djang'kawuClan landCreation stories

Yalaŋbara suite

2000 Linocut

Series of six linocut prints depicting Yolŋu stories.

YalangbaraYolŋu culture

Yalangbara

2005 Bark painting

Bark painting of her homeland Yalangbara.

HomelandSaltwater

Bibliography

  • Yalangbara: Art of the Djang'kawu
  • Gong-wapitja: Women and art from Yirrkala

Style & Themes

Literary Style
cross-hatching (rarrk)printmaking techniquesbark painting
Recurring Motifs
Djang'kawu sistersWagilag sistersTurtle hunters

Legacy

Pioneering Yolngu printmaker dedicated to Indigenous art, culture preservation, IP rights, and land custodianship.

Museums

  • National Gallery of Australia Canberra Opened in 1982
  • Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Wellington Opened in 1998
  • National Gallery of Art Washington D.C. Opened in 1941

Archives

  • Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre

In Popular Culture

  • 2017 Australia Post stamps 'Art of the North' series

Quotes

  • Arts and country and environment are all one... And why are these three elements so important to protect today? It's an identification. It's you knowing who you are, where you've come from, where your ancestors are from. Without those ID, you are nobody. You don't exist.
    Source: TV interview (2020)
  • ...my brother and I were known to the family as the outcasts because we moved outside of our boundary and went out to an unknown territory that was known as the balanda world, white man's world. And he initiated the whole debate about copyright that is still being fought twenty years on.
    Source: 1997 statement (1997)

Trivia

  • First Aboriginal person on the National Gallery of Australia board
  • Had 5 children
  • Daughter Ruby Alderton is a printmaker
  • Pioneering IP case in the carpets case
  • Contributed to heritage listing of Yalangbara sacred sites