Join Yolngu artists and knowledge holders for a tour of Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Art from Yirrkala and experience one of the world’s greatest artistic traditions from the perspective of those who shaped it.
Organized by the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia in partnership with the Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre, and hosted at The Fralin Museum of Art Feb 3 – Jul 14, 2024, Madayin is the most significant exhibition of bark painting to tour the United States, presenting eight decades of artistic production, from 1935 to the present, and including newly commissioned art works.
The exhibition shows bark painting to be a dynamic tradition, brought forward by the artists of Buku-Larrŋgay. Ancient mark making traditions are carried into the present through the passion and artistry of these leading artists. Here in a remote corner of Australia has emerged one of the most powerful painting movements of our time.