Madayin Exhibition Web Resource (Web Resource)
Title: Madayin Exhibition Web Resource
Author: Henry Skerritt
Author: Lauren Maupin
Author: Wukun Wanambi
Abstract: Maḏayin is the result of a six-year collaboration between Kluge-Ruhe and Indigenous knowledge holders from the Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre in northern Australia. It chronicles the rise of a globally significant art movement as told from the perspective of the Yolŋu people. Maḏayin presents more than 90 iconic paintings on eucalyptus bark, inviting audiences across the US to discover this inspiring story of the sacred, the beautiful, and the power of art. "Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala" is organized by the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection in partnership with the Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala. It opens at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth in September 2022.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://madayin.kluge-ruhe.org/
Primary URL Description: The Madayin Digital Experience offers an exploration of Yolngu art and ideas, enabling visitors to order artworks in the exhibition by clan, songline, timeline or country and to see the "madayin" or sacred patterns that connect them. Pages for individual artworks contain quotes by the artist, specific information about the meaning of symbols and imagery in the painting, the artist's biography and links to additional images and resources. Audio files provide the correct pronunciation of Yolngu words, artist's names and the titles of artworks.

Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala (Catalog)
Title: Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala
Author: Kade McDonald
Author: Henry Skerritt
Author: W. Wanambi
Abstract: This volume chronicles the rise of a globally significant art movement, as told from the perspective of the Yolngu people of northeastern Australia. It presents more than 90 iconic paintings on eucalyptus bark, many of which have never been seen outside of Australia. For millennia, Yolngu people around Yirrkala in northern Australia have painted their sacred clan designs on their bodies and ceremonial objects. These designs—called miny’tji—are not merely decorative: they are the sacred patterns of the ancestral land itself. Yolngu people describe them as madayin: a term that encompasses both the sacred and the beautiful. With the arrival of Europeans in the 20th century, Yolngu people turned to the medium of painting on eucalyptus bark with ochres. The result was an outpouring of creativity that continues to this day as artists find new and innovative ways to transform their ancient clan designs into compelling contemporary statements that is chronicled in this singular publication.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://delmonicobooks.com/book/madayin-eight-decades-of-aboriginal-australian-bark-painting-from-yirrkala/
Primary URL Description: Distributor's website
Catalog Type: Exhibition Catalog
Publisher: Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia

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