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Elcho Island
Galiwin’ku is a Yolŋu community located on Elcho Island around 550km from Darwin NT. Approximately 2500 people live here and its is the main community of both the island and the greater Marthakal region. Many languages are spoken, Djambarrpuyŋu being the most prominent. Located at the southern point of the Wessell Islands, Galiwin’ku is remote and culturally rich with many regarded visual artists and musicians hailing from this small island.
Marthakal Group
The Marthakal Group is 100 per cent Indigenous owned and governed. The organisation is committed to providing ongoing local benefit to the homelands of the region through provision of a number of services, specifically targeted towards supporting people in living and returning to their homelands.
Our Artists
Elcho Island Arts supports and represents both emerging and existing artists of the Marthakal region. Assisting in collection and preparation of materials, the art centre works with artists in the creation of quality works, exhibitions, marketing and continuing of knowledge. Artists represent the various clans and family groups of the Yolŋu people, and share stories that have been passed on to them as well as create contemporary pieces.
Judy Manany
My name is Judy Manany Gurruwiwi. My clan is Galpu and my Moiety is Dhuwa. I learnt to make art from my father who I assisted from when I was 10 years old. I collected materials for him. We made hollow logs, yidaki, bark paintings and carvings. I learnt how to make my own art with my own ideas when my father passed away. Now I work a lot with wood, doing carvings and also painting bark.
Our Art Centre is vital to us as it “holds our traditions and cultural heritage for future generations” (Megan Yunupingu), and importantly “brings our culture back to Yolngu people” (Judy Manany Gurruwiwi).
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