Title
Trees and flying fox camp
circa 1950s
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Bark painting (Trees and flying fox camp)
- Place where the work was made
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Milingimbi
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Central Arnhem Land
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Date
- circa 1950s
- Media category
- Bark painting
- Materials used
- natural pigments on bark
- Dimensions
- 48.0 x 29.5 cm (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1962
- Location
- Naala Badu, ground level, Yiribana Gallery
- Accession number
- IA10.1962
- Copyright
- © Binyinyuwuy Estate. Licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd
- Artist information
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Binyinyuwuy Djarrankuykuy
Works in the collection
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About
In 'Trees and flying fox camp' c1950s Binyinyuwuy provides columns of the Ganalbingu rarrk (cross-hatching) for water, alternating with the clustered floral design for the flying fox. In form this design echoes the flowers from which the bats draw nectar, while also representing their droppings that fall into the water as they fly to the nearby paperbark forest, providing the water with power. As Gallery archivist Steven Miller has noted, ‘this comparatively restrained composition successfully reduces these associated, yet divergent realities to an identifiable visual code or abbreviation’. Binyinyuwuy inherited the rights to paint this Ganalbingu design through his maternal grandmother.
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Places
Where the work was made
Milingimbi
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Remembering Forward: An Exhibition of Major Australian Indigenous Artists, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, 20 Nov 2010–20 Mar 2011
Art from Milingimbi: taking memories back, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Nov 2016–29 Jan 2017
Yiribana Gallery: opening collection display, Art Gallery of New South Wales, North Building, Sydney, 03 Dec 2022–29 May 2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Emily Joyce Evans and Falk Wolf, Remembering forward: Australian Aboriginal painting since 1960, 'Bark paintings', pg. 102-123, Cologne, 2010, 104 (colour illus.), 105 (colour illus., detail). cat.no. 45
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Cara Pinchbeck, Lindy Allen and Louise Hamby, Art from Milingimbi, Sydney, 2016, 56 (colour illus.), 140.
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Ken Watson, Tradition today: Indigenous art in Australia, 'Binyinyuwuy', pg. 30, Sydney, 2004, 39 (colour illus.).
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