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Book SynopsisDjambawa Marawili AM is one of the most important Aboriginal leaders in Australia. A statesman and ceremonial leader, Marawili is the leader of Madarrpa clan and also an acclaimed artist. He has had numerous exhibitions in Australia since 1984 and is represented in most major Australian institutional collections as well as several important overseas public and private collections.
Kade McDonald is the CEO and founder of Agency a not-for-profit organisation that celebrates and promotes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, culture and people. He was formerly the executive director of Durrmu Arts Aboriginal corporation and was the coordinator for Buku-Larrngay Mulka Art Centre in Yirrkala. He has curated and co-curated over 20 exhibitions, including the touring exhibition Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala (2022).
Cara Pinchbeck (editor) is head of First Nations at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. A member of the Kamilaroi community, she has curated over 20 exhibitions. Her recent publications include
The Sydney Modern Project: Transforming the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2022, contributor)
Nongirrna Marawili: from my heart and mind (2018),
Tony Tuckson (2018, contributor),
Art from Milingimbi: taking memories back (2016),
When silence falls (2015) and
Yirrkala drawings(2013).
Will Stubbs is coordinator at the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre in Yirrkala, Northern Territory, and a passionate advocate of Indigenous arts and Australia's unique arts centres. A former criminal lawyer, Stubbs began working with Yolnu Elders and artists in 1995. In 2015 he was awarded the Australia Council Visual Arts Award for Advocacy.
