Gunybi Ganambarr / Ngaymil people / Australia b.1973 / Buyku 2015 / Conveyor belt rubber with natural pigments and sand / 182 x 90cm / Purchased 2016 with funds from Gina Fairfax through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery / © The artist

Gunybi Ganambarr
Buyku 2015

Not Currently on Display

Gunybi Ganambarr’s 12 years’ experience of house-building at his remote home allows him to appreciate the potential in various materials. Ganambarr exemplifies the confidence and cultural assertion of the new experimental Yolngu art, however, he remains firmly guided and influenced by his elders and senior artists, such as Djambawa Marawili and Wanyubi Marika.

Gunybi lives mostly on his mother’s country at Gangan, though he occasionally bases himself at Dhuruputjpi Outstation, as the creative environment in these communities provides him with inspiration for his unique artistic style. Ganambarr shares sacred stories and knowledge from his mother’s Yirritja moiety and the Dhuwa moiety to which he belongs, including performing ceremonial Yidaki.