Maria Pyro is a prominent figure in the Borroloola region – she is a teacher at the local school, a cultural leader and an established artist at Waralungku Arts. Maria is a Garrwa woman and works hard to teach and preserve language among young people at the local school. In previous years she was involved with …
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Maria Pyro
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Peggy Mawson Yabu
Peggy is Garrwa, Gudanji and Wambaya and was born on Brunette Downs Station on the Barkly Tablelands. She grew up speaking Gudanji and Wambaya. Her country is Garrinjini through her father and grandfather. It is owned by the Mararabarna (mermaid-like Ancestral Beings). She is ngimarringki (boss) for that country. Peggy spent much of her childhood …
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RhodaHammer
Rhoda was born at Numbulwar which is a community on coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria. She went to a boarding school in Darwin in the 1970’s, but she has lived in Borroloola for most of her life. Rhoda has been employed doing office work at various places in the community and started at the …
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Annie Taylor (McDinny)
Annie Taylor (nee McDinny) is the foremost jewellery crafter at Waralungku Arts. She loves to combine bush materials with contemporary settings and findings to get the very best balance of traditional culture, contemporary design and wearable quality – she spends a great deal of time ‘out bush’ gathering seeds, pods, wood, shells, bone and feathers …
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ColleenCharlie
Colleen Charlie is one of the foremost artists at Waralungku Arts, with a distinctive style and subject matter that reflects her interest in both the environment and life ‘on country’. This interest comes from a strong background of both culture and rural/bush life going right back to her childhood days. Colleen was born in Burketown, …
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