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customary stories and gained approval to adapt her work into a design one hundred times larger than the original, embedded into the building fabric in Paris. At the official Sydney launch of the commission in 2005, she gave a speech to emphasize how important it was for her to share her art and culture with the world for future generations: "This is from my heart, to you, to share, for the whole world to understand my culture." Her work remains part of the largest international commission of contemporary indigenous art from
Australia. She had her first solo show at the Alcaston Gallery in 2004. Her work has also been featured in the Basic Needs Pavilion at the Hannover World Expo in 2000, the
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abstractions from those grand creational epics with a universal appeal - the Ganyu (stars) and Garak (universe) are major subjects of
Gulumbu’s works. She developed her signature style of a dense network of crosses representing the stars, unified by fields of dots representing everything that isn't seen. Her paintings reflect on the shared contemporaneity across the world and the relationship between selves and the universe. Additionally, she believed stars symbolize the importance of striving for harmony, explaining, “We can all look at the stars, whichever sky we're looking at."
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in Paris. in 2006. She was one of eight
Aboriginal artists whose art was incorporated into the design of the museum itself, creating a ceiling of stars composed of thousands of dots on the second floor of the building. The curatorial team visited Gulumbu for the commission to hear her clan’s
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Yunupingu, also known as the Star Lady, was the first Yolngu woman to gain significant international acclaim for bark paintings. She was taught by her father, Mungurrawuy Yunupingu, and gained inspiration from Yolngu ancestral stories told by him. However, she chose to depict small
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Dhanaya. Given her world-wide renown, her family gave consent to her name appearing in text, but asked that her name is not spoken, and no image of her shown. She can be referred to as Djotarra or Ms Yunupingu.
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