Galuma Maymuru

Maymuru has been a working artist at the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre at Yirrkala for over three decades. Her work is largely inspired by the landscape around Blue Mud Bay, as well as the Manggalili knowledge and ancestral designs her father taught her.^[4] She primarily works in bark painting and on ceremonial poles, beginning her career on "little barks" before shifting to large barks.^[6]

Her first solo exhibition was in 1999 at the William Mora Galleries in Melbourne. The show is subtitled "in memory of Narritjin" as an ode to all the knowledge her father passed down to her through painting.^[7] She is one of the first generation of Yolngu women to become major artists.^[2]

In 2003, Maymuru was awarded the bark painting prize at the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award for her painting Guwak. The same year her work was featured in the exhibition titled Buwayak: Invisibility at the Annandale Galleries, which focused on the paintings of Maymuru, Djambawa Marawili, and Wanyubi Marika.^[6]

In 2013, her work was included in Found, an exhibition focused on works created by Yolngu artists out of material they find on the land and largely inspired by the innovative work of Gunybi Ganambarr. The piece she contributed, Yambirrku was painted on MDF rather than her traditional medium of eucalyptus bark.^[8]

Her work is held in major collections around Australia including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Sydney Opera House, the National Museum of Australia, the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, the Harland Collection, the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery and the Berndt Museum of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia.^[9]

• Taylor, Luke (1996). Seeing the inside: bark painting in western Arnhem Land. Oxford University Press. ISBN 019823354X.

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