17. Namorrorddo Skin
The Namorrorddo is a yirridjdja moiety being associated with the Yabbadurruwa regional ceremony. Namorrorddo is a profane spirit of a malevolent nature. Namorrorddo sits upon a rock and is usually painted with long claw like hands and feet. Sometimes spurs protrude from the elbows somewhat like those of a flying fox. Namorrorddo carries light, which emanates from his head. The shooting stars seen at night are Namorrorddo travelling across the night sky. He whistles an eerie cry, which Bininj people say they can hear at night from time to time. ~ Maningrida Arts & Culture
- Ink on Arches Paper
- Dimensions: 77 x 57cm (unframed), 93 x 74cm (framed)
- Cat No. 1818-24
Kalidjan Janet Marawarr is a senior Kuninjku artist who predominantly works at the Babbarra Womens' Centre as a talented textile printer. She is renowned for her lino printing of intuitive repeat patterns on a range of textile surfaces. Janet regards textile design as an opportunity to work with colour and new methods to express her djang (ancestral creation stories). It wasn't until early 2021 that Janet picked up the manyilk (Bush brush) and painted her first bark painting since the passing of her late husband, Dalngadalnga. Using the knowledge she had from assisting him with his bark paintings, she began to depict Namorrorddo, the Shooting star spirit at Mankorlod. When she is not at the women's center Lino printing or painting at home, she is working for the Maningrida Night Patrol to keep her community safe.
Maningrida Arts & Culture is a pre-eminent site of contemporary cultural expression and art-making, abundant with highly collectable art and emerging talent. Through their homelands resource organisation, Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation, artists turned an art trade that began just over 50 years ago into a multi-million dollar arts and cultural enterprise.
Maningrida Arts & Culture supported hundreds of artists on their homelands, more than 20 artworkers, held 20 exhibitions annually, won prestigious awards, and enjoyed the international fame and success that the boom in the Aboriginal art market of the 1990s and 2000s enabled.
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