The Broome 6 Gallery is the only Australian art gallery representing the Wandjina artists of Mowanjum. If you are interested in any of the work or would like further information please contact us.
Artists exhibiting in this collection
Donny Woolagoodja, Leah Umbagai, Pudja Barunga, Gordon Barunga, Warren Barunga, Sandra Mungulu, Mildred, Mungulu Margaret Mungulu, Marjorie Mungulu, Gudu Mungulu, Denise Kelly, Philinka Dolby, Gabriella Dolby Gordon Smith, Alison Burgu.
Namarali
By Donny Woolagoodja
Acrylic on Canvas 100cm x 182cm
(Cat: 6 B606/6) $15,000
SOLD
Wandjinas
By Donny Woolagoodja
Acrylic on Canvas 81 x 103cm
(Cat: 55 B655/6) $8,500
SOLD
Four Sisters
Warren Barunga
Acrylic on Canvas 51 x 62 cm
(Cat: 53 B653/6) $3,500
Bush Yams
Warren Barunga
Acrylic on Canvas 64 x44cm
(Cat: 54 B654/6) $3,500
Wandjinas, Ungud and Gyorn Gyorn
Sandra Mungulu
Acrylic on Canvas 98cmx82cm
(Cat: 5 B605/6) $5,200
SOLD
ETCHINGS
The Mowanjum group of artists have developed a high level of traditional print making skills and are producing a range of limited series Unique State Etchings. The Etchings are printed on to high quality Bockingford paper. The etchings capture the essence of layered rock painting like no other Indigenous Print making has been able to do.
They can be purchased framed or unframed, however we recommend the framed ones as they have been framed to conform to the highest quality of archival framing to protect your investment.
Gyorn Gyorn and Wandjina
Unique State Etching
by Leah Umbagai
Image size 18cm x 27cm
$950 Unframed, $1,150 Archivally Framed
2 SOLD 2 more available
Gyorn Gyorn and Wandjina
Unique State Collaborative Etching signed by 11 artists.
Image size 19cm x 53cm
$1050 Unframed, $1,300 Archivally Framed
6 available
Wandjina and Gyorn Gyorn
Unique State Etching
by Leah Umbagai
Image size 53cm x 39cm
$1250 Unframed, $1550 Archivally Framed
2 sold / 2 more available
Kimberley Wandjina Images
Unique State Collaborative Etching
Image size 53cm x 39cm
$1250 Unframed, $1550 Archivally Framed
3 SOLD 3 more available
UNIQUE WORK BY JACK DALE
Untitled
By Jack Dale
Acrylic on Canvas 76cm x 156cm
(Cat: 27 B626/6) $8,500.00
Gyorn Gyorn
Sandra Mungulu
Acrylic on Canvas 90cm x 66cm
(Cat: 21 B621/6) $3,200
Wandjina and Sugar Bags
Gudu Mungulu
Acrylic on Canvas
48cmx63cm
(Cat: 25 B625/6) $2,500
In the culture of the Worora, Ngarinyin and Wunumbul tribes, which make up the Mowanjum community outside Derby, the Wandjina is the supreme spirit being.
As with most complex cultures, opinions about creation can differ. According to David Mowaljarlai (dec), a highly respected Mowanjum elder, the Worora, Ngarinyin and Wunumbul people are the three Wandjina tribes. Only these three tribes see the Wandjinas as the true creators of the land. Many other Australian Aboriginal tribes believe that the Dreamtime snake or Rainbow Serpent was the main creative force.
According to Mowanjum artist Mabel King (dec), during Lai Lai (the creation time), Wallungunder, the “big boss” Wandjina, came from the Milky Way to create the earth and all the people. These first people were the Gyorn Gyorn – what some gudiya (white) people call Bradshaw figures, named after the gudiya to first see them in 1891. The Gyorn Gyorn had no laws or kinship and wandered around lost.
Wallungunder saw that he could do good with these people, so he went back to the Milky Way and brought many other Wandjinas with the power of the Dreamtime snake to help him bring laws and kinship to the Gyorn Gyorn people. The Dreamtime snake represents Mother Earth and is called ungud.
The Wandjinas created the animals and the baby spirits that reside in the rock pools or sacred ungud places throughout the Kimberley, and continue to control everything that happens on the land and in the sky and sea.
Sam Woolagoodja (dec), a distinguished and eminent Worora leader and law man, described the Wandjina image by saying ‘their power is so great that they don’t need to speak, so they have no mouth. Their eyes are powerful and black, like the eye of a cyclone. The lines around a Wandjina’s head can mean lots of things – clouds, rain, lighting. The Wandjinas, he said, painted their own images on the cave walls before they returned to the spirit world.’
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