Wukun Wanambi is an award winning Yolŋu artist and senior Marrakulu clan leader.

Wukun works through traditional Yolŋu mediums as well as being a prolific digital artist. Wukun’s artwork depicting the ceremonial waters of his ancestral homeland Gurka’wuy reside in major institutional and private collections throughout the world.
Wukun’s opening NFT series is a highly detailed photogrammetry scan of his bark painting on loan to The Yirrkala Museum.

This 3D digital replica has been segmented into allotments creating 81 unique NFT artworks. A portion of the sale of these NFTs will be allocated to acquiring the original physical artwork and permanently accessioning it into the Yirrkala Museum’s public collection.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2021 art Karlsruhe 2021 – ARTKELCH @ art Karlsruhe 2021, Karlsruhe, Germany

2019 Water – QAGOMA

2019 Wanambi – Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney

2019 NIRIN – 22nd Biennale of Sydney – Art gallery of NSW, Sydney

2019 Gurrutu – Tarnanthi 2019 – Art Gallery of South Australia

2018 Balnhdhurr – A Lasting Impression – Touring Exhibition – Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Caboolture, QLD

2018 Minytji – Essence of the Land – Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium

2018 35th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards-Finalist – Museum and Art Gallery of the

Northern Territory (MAGNT), NT

2017 Wynne Prize 2017 – Art Gallery of New South Wales

2016 Wukun Wanambi – Trial Bay – Hanging Valley, Second Space Gallery, Melbourne VIC

2016 Tradition & Innovation – Paris Parcours des Mondes 2016-Aboriginal Signature • Estrangin Gallery

2016 Endless Circulation, TarraWarra Biennial 2016 – Tarrawarra Museum of Art, VIC

2016 32nd Telstra National Aboriginal

2016 Wukun Wanambi Trial Bay Gurkawuy – Redot Gallery, Singapore

2013 FOUND – Annandale Galleries,

2013 Finalist – Western Australian Art Awards – Art Gallery of Western Australia, WA

2013 Prized – Nomad Art, Darwin

2006 23rd National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award – Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

(MAGNT), Darwin NT

AWARDS

2018 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Darwin NT – Winner – Wandjuk Marika 3D Award

2010 Telstra NATSIAA – Winner Wandjuk Marika 3D Award

2007 TOGA, NT Contemporary Art Award exhibition – Winner, Peoples Choice Award

2006 TOGA, NT Contemporary Art Award exhibition – selected finalist

COLLECTIONS

Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich, Germany; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin NT. National Maritime Museum, Saltwater Collection. Darling Harbour, Sydney NSW, Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth WA; Northern Territory Supreme Court Art Collection, Darwin NT; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide SA; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ACT; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney NSW; Holmes a Court Collection, Perth WA; Artbank, Sydney NSW; Manly Regional Gallery, Manly NSW; Musee de Lyon, Lyon France; The Laverty Collection, Sydney NSW; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney NSW; Charles Darwin University Art Collection; Sammlung Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf, Germany; Museum Kunstwerk, Germany; Museum Five Continents, Munich; Fondation Opale, Switzerland.