Levels 3-8
Join an NGV Educator for a short and lively introduction to one work from the NGV Collection and exhibitions. To have your questions answered about the Wednesday Work of the Week during the program send them in advance to education.bookings@ngv.vic.gov.au.
A program recording will also be available to access online for booked participants for one week.
Djapu
How is culture and custom expressed through art? Noŋgirrŋa Marawili’s Djapu, 2020, is a larrakitj, a type of memorial pole made from logs of stringybark trees. Learn about the historical role of larrakitj in Yolŋu funeral rituals and see the way contemporary larrakitj can function as beautiful works of art in modern day gallery settings such as those at NGV.
Djapu is on display in the exhibition Bark Ladies: Eleven Artists from Yirrkala, an exhibition that celebrates the work by Yolŋu women artists from the Buku Larrngay Mulka Centre (Buku), in North-East Arnhem Land.
Duration: 15 mins
Cost: Free
Learning objectives
- Discuss the process Noŋgirrŋa Marawili followed to create Djapu
- Identify and describe the patterns and motifs applied to Djapu
- Compare and contrast larrakitj made by different artists represented in the exhibition Bark Ladies: Eleven Artists from Yirrkala