Mardayin design
2003
- Medium
- earth pigments on Stringybark (Eucalyptus sp.)
- Measurements
- 132.2 × 71.8 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Milmilngkan, Northern Territory
- Accession Number
- 2004.41
- Department
- First Nations Australia
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Supporters and Patrons of Indigenous Art, 2004
© Kay Linduwanga/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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Kay Lindjuwanga was born in 1957, the daughter of major artist Peter Marralwanga (c. 1916–87) and sister of Bill Namunjdja, Samuel Namunjdja and Ivan Namirrki. A Kuninjku (Eastern Kunwinjku) speaker, Kay belongs to the Yirridjdja moiety, the Kardbam clan and the Bulanj subsection and is married to major artist John Mawurndjul. Like other female Kuninjku artists, Lindjuwanga learnt to paint by watching her father, brothers and husband, and eventually began to paint on bark by helping her husband fill in the background rarrk.