Click to enlarge- Region
- Arnhem Land
- Community
- Gapuwiyak
Darra, 2008
natural earth pigments on bark
131 x 44cm
$4,200
- Provenance
- Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala, NT Private Collection NSW Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW
- Artwork story
- Dhapa is the youngest brother of award winning artist Gunybi. He has painted sacred freshwater that covers an area around a sacred pond on his country at Yanunbi. It also represents the reed which covers the surface of this freshwater called Darra. Sacred goanna's swimming in the water disturbs the surface giving rise to patterns made sacred for the artist clan.