Minjurr, Gunybi Ganambarr
Found and etched aluminium, 75 x 56 x 60cm
Provenance: Salon Art Projects, Darwin
Gunybi Ganambarr is a Yolngu artist who lives and works at Gängän, near Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. He began his artistic career painting on bark and larrakitj but has since extended his practice with an experimental and innovative use of reclaimed materials, which include wood, rubber, glass, steel, galvanised iron and aluminium. Gunybi has had the instinct to introduce radical new forms without offending community tolerance and under the tutelage of artists such as Gawirrin Gumana and Yumutjin Wunungmurra from his mother’s Dhaḻwaŋu clan, has been able to assume ceremonial authority. With this authority and tutelage shaping the content he is able to depict in his work, he has introduced or developed novel forms such as double sided barks, heavily sculpted poles, incised barks, ironwood sculpture, inserting sculptures into poles (1) (2).