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BIRRANGAY BULILIL (leaves falling) - Hope vale Autumn collection 2025
About the Artist - Wanda Gibson
Born 1946
Language Guugu Yimithirr
Totem Thagay (Goanna) & Waandarr (White Cockatoo)
Clan Nugal Warra
Wanda was born in the Woorabinda hospital in 1946. During World War II, her family was moved from Cape Bedford and interned at Woorabinda settlement, which is located west of Rockhampton. The Australian Government deemed the Lutheran Missions in Cape York a threat to national security. Following the war, Wanda and her family relocated to a new settlement in Hope Valley, known as Hope Vale.
Wanda’s totems reflect her heritage: Thagay (Goanna) on her father’s side and Waandarr (White Cockatoo) on her mother’s side. She is a fluent speaker of Guugu Yimithirr and is recognized as an important elder for the Nugal Warra clan group.
At the art center, Wanda is a proud member of the Gamba Gamba group (senior women), whose artworks draw inspiration from traditional Guugu Yimmithirr Warra culture, contemporary influences, and mission-time histories. The women of Gamba Gamba possess deep cultural knowledge of family kinship systems, sacred sites, esoteric characters, and totems. They are dedicated to recording their language and traditional stories in order to preserve and pass them down to younger generations.
Wanda is one of the art center's longest-practicing artists and is also a gifted weaver and master dilly bag maker. Furthermore, she has completed a Diploma in Visual Arts through the Cairns institute of TAFE.
About the Design - Magaar (Net)
This is a fish trap that my old people would make in tidal creeks. They would collect rocks and sticks to make a trap to catch the fish when the tide would go out. The old people would share the fish they caught with other families in the camp.
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