KNOWN is a series of publications that promotes and celebrates contemporary Indigenous Australian artists, facilitating cross-cultural dialogue between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and writers. KNOWN elevates and amplifies First Nations voices; strengthening cultural knowledge, language, and artistic engagement. The KNOWN series is designed to foster knowledge exchange within communities and acknowledges contemporary Indigenous Australian artists on both national and international stages.

This volume traces the work of Marrnyula MunuÅ‹gurr, a YolÅ‹u woman, senior artist, and printmaker who has been working as part of the Buku-LarrÅ‹gay Mulka Centre in Yirrkala, Arnhem Land, since the 1980s. Raised in a family of prolific artists, she is perhaps best known for her vast installations of meticulously painted and arranged small barks. In 2020, she won the bark painting category of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. The book traces both Munungurr’s artworks and documentation of her life on country. It features a major text by leading scholar and curator Maia Nuku, Evelyn A. J. Hall and John A. Friede Curator for Oceanic Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and a brief interview with the artist that is also translated into language.

Paperback
96 pages
27.2 x 19.7cm