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About Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka
Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka (@bukuartnow) is an Art creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. The account has 21,435 followers and 1,835 published posts. Recent posts average 254 likes and 12 comments, an engagement rate of 1.18%.
With 21.4K followers, Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Set against 949 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 23 followers per account Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka follows. Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka under Art, with Art & DIY as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka runs to 19 words across 3 lines. Emoji sit alongside the words. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka dates from June 2026.
1,835 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka, 7 are carousels, 2 are single images and 1 is a video. That mix leans toward carousels. Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka has built a substantial archive of 1,835 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 12 followers for each post published. All 10 carry captions, averaging 160 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include cultural, first, award, artists and centre. The captions tag #firstnationsarts, #djirrirrawunuŋmurrayukuwa, #moyurrurrawunuŋmurra, #michaelreidsydney and #qutfilmscreen.
Thanks so much 🙏 image shows Buku artists Gunybi Ganambarr, Festival Director Yinimala Gumana, Buwaṯpuy Gumana and Garawan Waṉambi.
I thought it was just arts that I can do, only by hands, and use red ochre, white ochre and clay. Now this is different. We can talk for our rights for our countries” — Dr Djambawa Marawili AM, recipient of the Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Advocacy and Leadership
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Awards artwork by Dr Bronwyn Bancroft
The First Nations Arts and Culture Awards recognise and celebrate the enormous contribution of First Nations artists and leaders.
Learn more via link in bio ☝🏾
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That lifetime has too many achievements to list. We wanted to give a snapshot but have had to spread it over two posts. Please have the patience to read on and appreciate a person who has struggled to make our country richer, safer and kinder.
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He came to the Chairmanship of the Top End’s peak art centre body ANKA in 2000 when it was about to be dissolved and has been re-elected in that role by his peers every year since. ANKA is a vigorous influential organisation which is directed completely towards its remote Indigenous artists and has run the Arts Workers Extension Program for over 15 years with hundreds of remote arts workers travelling to arts institutions down South. He has won multiple arts prizes including the top one- First prize in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2019. He has pursued international cultural diplomacy in Asia, Europe and the Americas including proposing and delivering the biggest US tour of bark paintings ever staged and met the Queen, US presidents and multiple Australian PMs. Most recently he has assisted the Royal Australian Navy to identify and embrace its Indigenous heritage and future.
The amazing part of all of this is that the list above is his side gig. His principal role is and has been for decades that of Djirrikay- senior lawman for his region. This is a 24/7 emotionally and spiritually demanding job which he must live in the same way as the Pope or the Archbishop of Canterbury. Except ceremony is every day in Arnhem land not just Sundays and there is no wealthy infrastructure supporting him as an institutional church would.
Perhaps not surprising then that he said with characteristic truthfulness and power- “I do deserve this!”
That lifetime has too many achievements to list. We wanted to give a snapshot but have had to spread it over two posts. Please have the patience to read on and appreciate a person who has struggled to make our country richer, safer and kinder.
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The last surviving artist of the Barunga Statement in 1988 which prompted PM Hawke to promise a treaty. He burnt Howard’s ten point plan and opposed the intervention but was the only member of the ‘Prime Minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council’ to survive three PMs until its demise. He followed his father out of mission exile to establish Bäniyala homeland in the early 1970s to spearhead the Homeland Movement. He continues to develop and sustain this town of more than a hundred people in one of Australia’s most remote places. He initiated the successful sea rights campaign with the Saltwater collection of eighty barks which resulted in the High Court decision known as the Blue Mud Bay case acknowledging Indigenous ownership of the intertidal zone wherever Aboriginal land exists. He liberated the artists of East Arnhem with his innovation of the Buwayak (invisibility) approach to previously limiting conventions. He drove his art centre to pursue the development of young artists with the Young Guns campaign which saw a new generation of artists like Gunybi Ganambarr, Barayuwa Munuŋgurr and Yinimala Gumana. Under his direction Buku-Larrŋgay has been described as Austraiia’s most successful art centre.
Michael Reid Sydney will soon present a major exhibition by Yolŋu artists DJIRRIRRA WUNUŊMURRA YUKUWA and MOYURRURRA WUNUŊMURRA, sisters and leading creative voices at the Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre in Yirrkala, Northeast Arnhem Land. Bringing together two distinct yet deeply connected practices, their joint exhibition can now be previewed by request.
It is almost 20 years since Djirrirra won the Northern Territory Contemporary Art Award and nearly 30 years since the monumental bark painting she worked on alongside her father, Yaŋgarriny Wunuŋmurra, won First Prize at the 1997 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. And it is exactly 80 years since that same father was photographed at a larrakitj ceremony at Yirrkala, interring the bones of a deceased clan member within a richly painted memorial pole destined to return to the earth.
This is a vivid example of the bifocal nature of Yolŋu art and culture, where designs can embody contemporary practice and ancient spiritual observance at once. ‘Classical’ binds these threads together: two sisters, daughters of the same father, trace distinct artistic trajectories in the realm between classical and contemporary expression.
Djirrirra has exhibited extensively across Australia and internationally. ‘Classical’, however, is the first show in her own right for her sister. While Djirrirra is lauded for extending the visual language of Yolŋu art into new terrain, Moyurrurra has remained at her homeland at Gängan, working within the formal Dhaḻwaŋu iconography passed down by their father.
It might be easy to frame one practice as innovative and the other as traditional. Yet Moyurrurra’s art resists such a distinction. Hers are works of remarkable delicacy and authority – classical art rendered at an exceptionally high level. What unites their work is extraordinary discipline and finesse – the kind of devotion demanded by sacred cultural knowledge.
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Dhamarrandji’s works evoke the elusive presence of the dhambaḏiny (death adder), whose ability to camouflage itself within sand and grass is translated into visually complex and immersive compositions. The serpentine forms within her painted hollow-log sculptures and animated media can be difficult to discern, obscured by the shimmering optical effects of concentric diamond motifs derived from Djambarrpuyŋu miny’tji (sacred clan designs), echoing the patterned skin of the snake. Through this meticulous process, she reaffirms her enduring connection to her totem, her ancestors, and her Country.
Milminyina Dhamarrandji was born at Wirrwawuy, near Yirrkala and Nhulunbuy on the Gove Peninsula in the northeastern Northern Territory. Her märi (mother’s mother’s clan) is Rirratjiŋu, the Traditional Owners of Yirrkala, who share important sacred designs with the Djambarrpuyŋu people of the region.
See her work on display at both AGSA and Samstag Museum of Art until 8 June 2026.
📸 Saul Steed
May the tears of her sisters fall gently as we remember her strength, wisdom and creative spirit.
We send our heartfelt condolences to her family and friends.
While studying at QUT, Siena Mayutu Wurmarri Stubbs shared a powerful vision for her future, to return home and tell the stories of her people, and help others tell theirs.
Now, that vision is becoming a reality. Her short film Maŋutji (Catching Eyes), written and directed by Siena, is premiering at this June. Set in her home community of Yirrkala in Arnhem Land, the film explores a tender story of two teenagers navigating their feelings while honouring cultural boundaries and kinship.
Already making its mark, Catching Eyes has been named a finalist for both the Dendy Award for Best Live Action Australian Short and the First Nations Award.
From a student with a dream to a rising First Nations filmmaker on the national stage, Siena is a powerful new voice in Australian cinema.
Good luck at the festival, Siena!
Image credit: Sydney Film Festival Instagram
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