BALANG NAKURULK (JOHN MAWURNDJUL AM), Rainbow Serpent (with Buffalo

BALANG NAKURULK (JOHN MAWURNDJUL AM) Kuninjku language, 1952 - 2024 Rainbow Serpent (with Buffalo Horns), 1994 earth pigments on stringybark 202 x 61 cm bears inscription verso: 038/94, John Mawandjul PROVENANCE Maningrida Arts & Culture, Northern Territory, Cat No. 038/94 D'Lan Galleries, Victoria, Cat No. INV-MAWJ-0288 Private Collection, Victoria EXHIBITED Reverence 2025, D'Lan Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, 10 October - 19 December 2025 Balang Nakurulk (John Mawurndjul), was born in 1952 at Mumeka outstation in Western Arnhem Land and is recognised as one of the most important bark painters and sculptors of his generation. Working with natural ochres on stringybark, he developed a highly refined use of rarrk, or cross-hatching, transforming ancestral designs into complex and layered compositions that articulate Kuninjku cosmology and the power of Mardayin. He began painting in the late 1970s through Maningrida Arts and quickly became a leading figure in contemporary practice. His contribution to the Musée du quai Branly commission in Paris brought international recognition. In 2010 he was awarded Member of the Order of Australia, and his major retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in 2018, I Am the Old and the New, explored the continuity between inherited knowledge and contemporary expression. © JOHN MAWURNDJUL / Copyright Agency, 2026

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