Clan

Maḏarrpa

Artist Dates

Born 1967

Napuwarri Marawili

Napuwarri was taught to paint by his father, the respected artist Bakulaŋay Marawili, who he assisted on several collaborative paintings. His artist career began in earnest in 2004, and he held his first solo exhibition in 2008 at Suzanne O’Connell Gallery in Brisbane from which two works were acquired by the National Gallery of Australia. In 2018 he was awarded the Telstra Bark Painting Prize at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards for his painting Baraltja Dugong Yathikpa which was produced for the Maḏayin commission.