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Artists 0 comments. Djambawa Marawili is an artist who has experienced mainstream success but for whom the production of art is a small part of a much bigger picture.

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First and foremost a leader, art is one of the tools Djambawa Marawili uses to lead. He was instrumental in the initiation of the Saltwater exhibition. Away from the spotlight of activism, Djambawa must fulfill several other leadership roles. In recent years he has been very successful in advocating for his and other homelands against the anti-homeland movement championed by urban policymakers.

He has recently secured a new school building and permanent teachers for Yilpara. Somehow art is integral to each of these roles as well.

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Obviously the sacred designs figure to some secret extent in the countless circumcision, burial, memorial and other ceremonies that he is required to assist or lead. He was granted a two year Fellowship from the Australia Council in He has been at various times a member of the Northern Land Council. He is represented in most major Australian institutional collections as well as several important overseas public and private collections.

In addition to sculpture and bark painting, this senior artist has also produced linocut images and notably the first screenprint image for the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Printspace in In he travelled to the 3rd Moscow Biennale in Russia and sang open his installation of bark paintings there. A whole generation of artists took inspiration from his muscular engagement with his own law to produce new aesthetics that were at once visually dynamic and spiritually powerful.

He bent the formal compositions and moulded them onto fluid representations of the water they signified. He argued for a freeing up of these restrictions as long as the spirit of the Law was honoured.