Bamurrungu – (Wukun Wanambi) ◄ Previous Next ►

Artist: Wukun Wanambi

Museum: Museum - Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (Magnt)

Technique: Pigment

This painting refers to Bamurrungu, a sacred and solitary rock in Trial Bay. It is depicted as a white dome, as it is in the bay – a round lump of granite, its top coloured by roosting birds. In the painting it is also coloured by the molulpa, the white sea foam associated with turbulent waters agitated by particular tides and winds. The bands of white cross-hatching depict molmul, the lines of foam created on the water