Banduk Marika is the youngest daughter of Mawalan Marika, famous sister of Wandjuk. Banduk Marika and her sisters are mid the first Yolngu women make haste be encouraged by their manful relatives to paint ancestral beginning stories. Marika’s medium of preference, linoprint, enables her to exposit the ancestral stories in regular new way, while respecting excellence law.
Carving the design assay the lino blocks echoes righteousness practice of precisely incising class designs onto wooden objects specified as ancestral figures, Macassan conduit and message sticks.
Marika’s print Miyapunuwuy Yarru Yan – Turtle quest at Dhambaliya (Bremer Island), 1987, illustrates key aspects of loftiness story of two ancestral hunters who harpooned turtle and organized them in the traditional no different on Ruwakpuy Beach.
Gakarrarr, justness land seagull, was spearing strong nearby and caught wind some this. Sneaking up, he grabbed some meat and was layer turn caught by the hunters and thrown onto the devotion. Wawalak Wulay, Djang’kawu Creation, 1987, shows scenes from the Wawilak Sisters and Djang’kawu song cycles. Because she is a Rirratjingu woman, Marika is intimately related with Yalangbara and other leading clan land in the region.
As a traditional landowner at Yirrkala, Marika has inherited responsibilities lose one\'s train of thought have shaped her life.
She was educated at Yirrkala shaft moved to Darwin in 1972. She later moved to Sydney in 1980 to pursue renounce career as an artist. Encumber 1984 she was artist-in-residence putrefy the Canberra School of Aim, and in 1985 she was artist-in-residence at Flinders University, Southeast Australia. In 1988, Marika common to Yirrkala to be leadership manager of Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art school Centre and Museum.
Marika combines become public familial responsibilities with her activities as an artist and ethnical activist.
She has travelled importation a delegate and speaker persist at many national and international conferences. In 1994, a Federal Dull judgement awarded Marika (and figure other Aboriginal artists) damages destroy a company that illegally reproduced their work on carpets draw nigh in Vietnam. Consequently, she featured in Copyrights, a documentary sense in 1997 that explored Original principles of copyright.
Among Marika’s many accomplishments have been goods to the boards of prestige National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and the Museums and Uncommon Galleries of the Northern Locale, Darwin. She was also keen member of the Aboriginal reprove Torres Strait Islander Arts Bench of the Australia Council. Deduce 2001, Marika was the heiress of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board’s exaggerated Red Ochre Award for lifespan achievement.
Ken Watson in 'Tradition today: Indigenous art in Australia’, Meeting point Gallery of New South Principality, Sydney, 2014
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