Art dealer/business (Indigenous owned/operated)

Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre

Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre is the Indigenous community controlled art centre of Northeast Arnhem Land. Located in Yirrkala, a small Aboriginal community on the northeastern tip of the Top End of the Northern Territory, approximately 700km east of Darwin. Our primarily Yolngu (Aboriginal) staff of around twenty services Yirrkala and the approximately twenty-five homeland centres in the radius of 200km. In the 1960’s, Narritjin Maymuru set up his own beachfront gallery from which he sold art that now graces many major museums and private collections. He is counted among the art centre’s main inspirations and founders, and his picture hangs in the museum. His vision of Yolngu-owned business to sell Yolngu art that started with a shelter on a beach has now grown into a thriving business that exhibits and sells globally. Buku-Larrnggay – “the feeling on your face as it is struck by the first rays of the sun (i.e. facing East) Mulka – “a sacred but public ceremony.” In 1976, the Yolngu artists established ‘Buku-Larrnggay Arts’ in the old Mission health centre as an act of self-determination coinciding with the withdrawal of the Methodist Overseas Mission and the Land Rights and Homeland movements.

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associated art dealers, galleries + art centres

• – Aboriginal & Pacific Art
• – Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, Belgium
• – Artitja Fine Art Gallery
• – Form - Building a state of creativity
• – Fremantle Arts Centre
• – Koskela Pty Ltd
• – Outstation Gallery - Aboriginal Art from Art Centres
• – Raft Artspace
• – Vivien Anderson Gallery
• – Yaama Ganu Gallery

associated indigenous artists

• – Caroline Dhamarrandji

contact

• http://yirrkala.com/
• art@yirrkala.com
• +61 8 8987 1701
• Bukuart
• bukuartnow
• mulkaproject
• ABN/ACN: 66 988 958 476

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