Organized by the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

Clan

Maŋgalili

Artist Dates

1951-2018

Galuma Maymuru

Galuma Maymuru was one of the first women to paint the maḏayin miny’tji (sacred clan designs). She was taught by her father Narritjin Maymuru. Galuma worked as a teacher at Bäniyala School and was influential in the Buwayak movement, in which the figurative elements of paintings were buried beneath more abstract designs. In 2003, she received the bark painting prize at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.

Collections Represented

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Ballarat Fine Art Gallery

Berndt Museum of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia

British Museum

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

National Museum of Australia

The Phillips Collection

Seattle Art Museum

Sydney Opera House