After a month of painting Glen Namundja adds the last details on this extraordinary piece depicting wakih (fresh shrimp).
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So much knowledge, love for culture and commitment in one photo 🔥
#glennamundja
Swipe right to be blown away by Dennis Naroldol’s painting depicting Djabbo dja dird (The quoll and the moon)
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Dennis has depicted an image of Dird the moon man. His image appears on rock, painted in red ochre near the outstation Gumarrirnbang, in Arnhem Land.
Dird the moon used to argue with Djebuyh (the possum) about the mortality of human beings. The Dird wanted people to die and return anew, waxing and waning, as the moon does. Djebuyh said that humans should die as animals do – that is they ‘finish’ with death, there is no return to earth. Djebuyh won the argument and ensured that people die forever. Only the moon is immortal.
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We are getting ready with the best of Injalak for @tarnanthi art fair coming up on October 15! This year the fair is going online, make sure to check it out🌟
Joe Guymala working on his new piece depicting Makkakkurr (Pelican)
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Joe’s work is often playful and documents his contemporary day to day life out bush, he also acknowledges his forefathers paintings in the rock shelters of Arnhemland as a great source of inspiration.
Joe works exclusively in natural ochre's using 'Manyilk' a thin grass brush to apply line after line, layer after layer to create his very powerful and unique compositions with lots of texture and an earthy look.
Joe is having a solo exhibition at London with @rebeccahossackartgallery . Stay tuned for more details.
#joeguymala
We have updated our Etsy shop with new earrings made by Injalak weavers at Gunbalanya. They have used pandanus leaves and natural dyes to create them 💚
We have also upgraded our hooks, so now every pair comes with sterling silver safety hooks, nice on your ears and you will never lose one of these gorgeous pieces again! 🤦🏽♀️
To find them follow the link in our bio and click on visit Etsy shop.
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*please have in mind we have older stock in our online shop with different hooks, for the new hooks check out our new listings 🌟
#jewellery #fibreart #weaving
Gabriel Maralngurra working on his painting depicting his unique rock art style.
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“ I like painting both styles, cross hatching and x-ray style and merging both to create my new style. I put the background and then build up layers of lines for decoration and overlapping on top of each other, combining like Rock art. Sometimes I paint on both layers and it comes through. I get ideas from my imagination and from the rock art to make my designs. I want people to feel the spirits and the elders who were doing those styles when they look at my paintings. I want them to feel and touch how it was done, to see the past continuing in the present.”
Gabriel Maralngurra
Beautiful detail and textures from Roland’s painting using ochre and clay 💛
Roland Burrunali with his painting depicting animals from the kulabbarl (billabong) including kedjebe (file snake) and Namarnkol (barramundi)
Roland uses exclusively ochres and clay for this exquisite line work ❣️
Larry Bangarr has painted Ngalkordow (brolga) using:
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💛Karlba (yellow ochre)
❤️Kunrodjbe (red ochre)
🤍Delek (clay)
🖤Kunyirrke (charcoal)
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He has grinned these natural materials on a brick and mixed with water to paint using Manyilk (thin grass)
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Ngalkordow (brolgas, Grus rubicunda) have elaborate courtship displays with elegant dances, and can often be seen in pairs around billabongs and floodplains. They are known to like eating the corms of mankurladj (water chestnuts, Eleocharis dulcis) and the seeds of modjdje (spike rushes, Eleocharis sphacelata). Kunwinjku people hear them saying “kordorrk kordorrk kordorrk” as they fly overhead. The Old People used to hunt them with djalakirradj (three pronged spears) and cook them in a ground oven, but recently this practice has stopped. The best time of the year to hunt ngalkordow for their flesh and their eggs is Kudjewk, the wet season, when they nest.
Matching greens 💚🌿
Selina Nadjowh and her Marebu (woven mat) in progress. Selina is using pandanus leaves and natural dyes harvested from the bush around Gunbalanya.
#fibreart #weaving
We had to share this gorgeous lenght printed by Samson Namundja and Sprotin Bangarr.
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This is Graham Badari’s Lambalk (sugar gliders) design and has been printed with copper ink on Cobalt blue silk.
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🌟We have hand screen printed fabric lengths in cotton, linen & silk available online now including this one.
link in bio❤️
Our fabric is printed in our studio here in Gunbalanya and comes with a story told by the designers.
#screenprinting #textileart
Work in progress- Shaun Namarnyilk is working on a new series of paintings on large canvas, can’t wait to see them all come together.
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In the meantime have checked out Shaun’s solo exhibition online with @brunswickstreetgallery, check out their website or go to our link in bio.
#shaunnamarnyilk
Shaun Namarnyill very focused on his new painting on canvas, he’s using a Manyilk (thin grass) and Kunwardde (ochre) to create these intricate lines🤎
#workinprogress #shaunnamarnyilk
Sunny days, pandanus days 🌴
#fibreart
Can you believe all these colours are natural 🌿
Injalak weavers harvest pandanus leaves and natural dyes from roots, leaves, and seeds from the bush in Gunbalanya.
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Here are some dyes women use 🌿
💛Yellow-orange: Mandjurndum (the bright orange roots of the Pognolobus reticulatus bush)
🤎Brown: Wirdilwirdil (the red bulb of Haemadorum breviculae grass)
💚Green: The growing shoot of the pandanus itself (Pandanus spiralis), boiled with the ashes of pandanus leaves.
💜Purple-pink – Windilk (the seeds of the Haemodorum coccineum plant, related to Kangaroo Paw)
🖤Grey-Black – Manbedde (the leaves of the quinine bush, Petalostigma pubescens)
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These beauties are available through our website, link in bio🌿
#naturaldyes #fibreart #weaving
Great to see Joe Guymala number one on the list for @artcollectormagazine critics choice.
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We are also very excited to announce Joe Guymala’s solo exhibition coming up in London at @rebeccahossackartgallery. Stay tuned for more details.
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Joe Guymala lives and works in Gunbalanya. He frequently spends time Manmoyi, his outstation in Western Arnhemland and is the grandson of Namerredje (John) Guymala. He has toured nationally as a musican with Nabarlek Band and Mimih Band and helped to write many songs with his knowledge of traditional stories and country. Guymala's work is often playful and documents his contemporary day to day life out bush, he also acknowledges his forefathers paintings in the rock shelters of Arnhemland as a great source of inspiration. Joe works exclusively in natural ochre's using 'Manyilk' a thin grass brush to apply line after line, layer after layer to create his very powerful and unique compositions.
#joeguymala
We’ve added beautiful artworks on paper to our website 🌟
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Featuring from left to right
Don Namundja
Allan Namaniyuo
Elaine Naroldol
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You can check them out and many more works on paper, canvas and bark, fibre art and carvings by following the link in bio > visit website.
Meet Owen Naborlhborlh, the chairman of Injalak, artist and team leader screen printer.
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Owen is behind many of our gorgeous printed fabric, he has a great eye for detail and colour combinations which are so valuable for injalak’s screen printing team 💛
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Today he and Samson Namundja have printed Thompson Nganjmirra design”Mimih spirit hunting” using light lemon yellow ink on gold silk.
Swipe right for videos and more details.
#screenprinting #textilearts
Kaye Namundja with her latest creation, weaved Manbiri (sea turtle). This beautiful weaving was made using pandanus leaves and natural dyes harvested out bush in Gunbalanya, NT.
The dyes used are:
💛Yellow: Mandjurndum (the bright orange roots of the Pognolobus reticulatus bush)
🤎Brown: Wirdilwirdil (the red bulb of Haemadorum breviculae grass)
💚Green: The growing shoot of the pandanus itself (Pandanus spiralis), boiled with the ashes of pandanus leaves.
🤍White: the natural colour of the pandanus with no dye.
#naturaldyes #fibreart #weaving
We have hand screen printed fabric lengths in cotton, linen & silk available online now 🌟Our fabric is printed in our studio here in Gunbalanya and comes with a story told by the designers. Royalties are paid to the designers for every metre printed
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This beauty and many more and now available online, follow the link in bio and click on visit Etsy shop 🌟
*limited quantities available
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📷 Sprotin Bangarr and Samson Namundja printing Gabriella Maralngurra’s design Ngalkunburriyaymi (water spirit) with rainbow colours on black cotton.
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#screenprinting #textileart
Lovely Joyce brought in this basket today, she’s used pandanus leaves and natural dyes to create these vibrant colours which are very representative of this region.
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Our weavers have been so busy creating gorgeous fibre artworks, we have updated our website with lots of them, have you checked it out? Just follow the link in bio 💕
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#fibreart #weaving #naturaldyes
We have sent out our newsletter
🌟 KURRUNG – Cooler times 🌟
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We have shared a bit of what’s happened during the last few months and what’s coming next!
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If you’d like to subscribe, follow the link on bio, it is a great way to stay up to date with news from Injalak.
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Artwork- Ngalyod (Rainbow serpent) by Glen Namundja
Repost @wanta_aboriginal_corporation
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Master weavers and cultural leaders Connie Nayinggul and Jennifer Garnarradj went out bush today with the girls from Wanta senior girls academy collecting pandanus and roots for natural dying.
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It’s always a great time to be out on country 💚
Glen Namundja working on his master piece, he is using yellow ochre and Manyilk (thin grass).
Check out the new works on paper and canvas that have come through this week ❣️
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We update our website regularly with new artworks, visit us! link in bio.
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Featuring Jonathon Garnarradj, Selina Nadjowh, thadius nabegeyo, Joe Guymala, Shaun Namarnyilk and Gabriel Maralngurra.
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#injalakarts
Jonathon Garnarradj with his new painting depicting Nganabarru (Buffalo).
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Jonathon is the artist behind our new buffalo fabric design, have you seen it? You can find it in our Etsy shop (link in bio). Jonathon’s painting will become available online very soon too ❣️
Kurrung – the hot dry time
A new season starting in this beautiful country 🧡
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We are putting together a newsletter to let you know what this new season is bringing and a summary from the last months.
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You will see exclusive photos and artworks we haven’t shared in our social media and know first hand what’s new and what’s coming up.
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Have you subscribed to our newsletter?🌟
If you haven’t, follow the link in our bio or stories, it is a great way to stay up to date with Injalak arts❣️
#newseason
We have updated our website with new stunning Mako “Didjiridu”, check them out, link in bio 🌟
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There are two things which we call “mako”. One meaning of mako is a didjiridu, which we blow when we sing songs and dance. The other meaning is “gun”. People go and look for didjiridus in the forest. They knock on trees and listen for hollow ones. Then they cut it down, and make a didjiridu for playing. To get that other type of mako, which we shoot, we have to go and buy it with money.
Mako Djang (Didjiridu Dreaming)
Ngalyod (the Rainbow Serpent) is a most important ancestor spirit in western Arnhem Land and apears in various manifestations in Kunwinjku mythology. It is believed that as a serpent she tunnels underground using barbed extensions from her head and the bony protuberance from her neck as aids. She is generally feared as she may swallow Aboriginals who break traditional laws. Ngalyod dwells also in various billabongs (lagoons) in Arnhem Land. In the Dreamtime Ngalyod assumed a range of animal forms, including snake, kangaroo and crocodile and at times transformed aherself from one to the other, or into a combination of each. She is painted in many images, according to each artist’s own imagination and mythological background. In this Dreaming Ngalyod entered a log and bored a hole in the wood creating a mako (didjiridu), the ceremonial drone pipe. The mako is shown in the centre of the painting, with the Ngalyod before and after shown on either side.
Collecting Pandanus with Helen Nawirridj, Norma Namundja, and Agnes Nalunjdjuk.
Collecting the Pandanus to make fibre art means exploring the beautiful landscapes around Gunbalanya.
#Repost @cairnsartgallery
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Less than 2 weeks left to catch this impressive exhibition 'Contemporary Indigenous Textiles from Australia's Tropic Zone'.
Gabriel Maralngurra working on one of his master pieces🔥