Ḏulk
2024
Medium
synthetic polymer paint on paper
Measurements
76.9 × 76.9 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2025
© Dhambit Munuŋgurr, courtesy of Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
In this work, Dhambit Munungurr depicts early events during Ancestral (and present) times at Yalata close to the Dhudi-Djapu clan’s homeland of Dhuruputjpi, which is her home too. A coastal fringe area that has territory leading up a river through plains country behind Blue Mud Bay, during the wet season, increasing tides bring with them, brackish water surges. During the dry season, everything dries out and fires turn the swamp into cracked earth, where freshwater springs dot the plain and form small islands of vegetation. As Rarrandada (the hot time) builds, thirsty Daŋgultji (brolgas) come to these sacred springs in their thousands, their noises deafening and tracks visible in the earth.