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Djambawa Marawili is an Aboriginal Australian Indigenous Art artist who was born in Numerous key galleries and museums such as Annandale Galleries.
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Djambawa Marawili
Aboriginal Australian artist
Djambawa Marawili AM (born 1953) is an Aboriginal Australian artist known for bark painting, wood sculpture, and printmaking.
He is also a musician, and released an album in 2008.
Biography
Marawili was born in 1953 in Baniyala, also called Yilpara, in East Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.[1] He is the son of Wakuthi Marawili,[2] and artist Mulkun Wirrpanda is his mother by kinship.[3] Although he had another name at birth, his father chose the name Djambawa just before he died, a powerful name meaning "the source of the fire on the rock in the sea", and another name, Bumbi, meaning "the rock of the fire".[2] His father taught him how to sing, telling him never to forget to do it, and he taught him about the land and his country.[4]
Marawili's mother by kinship, artist Mulkun Wirrpanda[5] was one of the few women in the Yolngu community who is
