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Donna Burak / Minga (Body Scarification Design) (25-23)
SKU: 25-23
100cm x 50cm Ochre on Canvas (sent rolled in a tube)
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$1,990.00
100cm x 50cm Ochre on Canvas (sent rolled in a tube)
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Artist Profile
Artwork is accompanied by Munupi Artists Certificate of Authenticity/Provenance
DOB: 22/10/1972
Father’s Country: Marrikawuyanga, Melville Island
Mother’s Country: Pitjamirra, Melville Island
Skin: March Fly
Language: Tiwi
Dreaming: Yirrikapayi (Crocodile)
Donna completed school in 1989. She participated in 2 printmaking workshops in Canberra at this time. In 1992 she travelled to Paris to represent Munupi at the opening of the Alliance Francaise Exhibition at the Australian Embassy. She has been a prolific member of Munupi Arts Centre, influencing many other artists from a young age. She is proud of her culture and her community, sitting on the local Council Committee and the Munupi Arts and Crafts Committee.
Selected Exhibitions
• 2021 Tiwi Papers; Tarnanthi Festival, Art Gallery of South Australia
• 2021 Yirrinkirripwoja Jilamara, Darwin Hilton Double Tree, NT
• 2019 Pupini Jilamara Nginingwula (Our Beautiful paintings), Double Tree Hilton, NT
• 2010 ‘A 9×12” Coo-ee Christmas’ Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney, NSW
• 2010 ‘Munupi Arts’, Qdos Gallery, Lorne, VIC
• 2005 Munupi Arts Show, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
• 2005 Pukupunawu, Bandigan Gallery, Woollahra, NSW
• 2003 Tayikuwapi – All Together, Art Mob, Hobart, TAS
Selected Collections
• National Gallery of Australia, ACT
• Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, NT
• Art Gallery of NSW
• News Limited Collection
• Flinders University Collection, Adelaide, SA
• Kelton Foundation, USA
• Art Bank Collection, ACT
• Australian Museum, Canberra ACT
• Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
• Australian Embassy, Warsaw Poland
Artwork Description
Men with status had Minga design. Usually head of the clan or chief. If they had 10 wives they had 5 Minga on each arm. And sometimes it would make them look beautiful. Some other men also had it because they became initiated as leaders and some had them on their bum and some had them on their chest.
Sometimes women had them too. I remember grandma had them on her arms. I asked how come she had them on both arms. Three on each side. She said well, the men that I had did not stay long enough. She was married to 3 husbands but she also had another three that did not stay around long. She wore calico around her body to cover herself so I never knew whether she had Minga on her bottom or not.
When they cut the Minga into the skin, its white underneath, then pink and then red and then the skin turns yellow. That’s why I put the white and sometimes the other colours.
Mainly men had them. And I used to ask questions like why has he got them? I was also interested in a curious way about them and to find answers you had to ask questions.
I often asked my dad questions. Dad was the one who told me that men and women of status had Minga. I always thinks about my mum and grandfather and the old people when I do my Minga paintings.
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