Untitled (Gunyungmirringa landscape)
1985
- Medium
- earth pigments on Stringybark (Eucalyptus sp.)
- Measurements
- 101.3 × 50.6 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Ramingining, Northern Territory
- Accession Number
- O.22-1986
- Department
- First Nations Australia
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased from Admission Funds, 1986
©Philip Gudthaykudthay/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Gallery 2
Ground Level, NGV Australia - About this work
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Philip Gudthaykudthay, also known as ‘Pussycat’, was born around 1935 at Mulgurrum, about ten kilometres south of present-day Ramingining. Gudthaykudthay began to paint on bark in the 1960s, at Nangalala on the Glyde River, where he was taught by his half-brother, Mirritja. His works were marketed through the mission outlet at Milingimbi until the early 1980s when a craft shop began to operate at Ramingining in an old demountable building. Bula’bula Arts was later founded at Ramingining and a new craft centre was opened in 1991 by then Director of the NGV, James Mollison.
On this bark, Gudthaykudthay has painted a series of miny’tji (particular designs) of his country, Gunyunmirringa/Mululmirr. He also paints Mirarrmina, the place where the two Wagilag sisters were devoured by Wititj, the olive python.