Gutiŋarra Yunupiŋu
Buymarr
Paper Size: 73.3 x 120cm; Image Size: 49.8 x 97.5cm; Paper: Hahnemuhle

ID: 5217-24

As told by the artist;;

I am a Gumatj man. When I was a little boy I lived with my family in Buymarr, which is a beautiful peaceful homeland on the beach approximately 100kms from Yirrkala. It was here that my family taught me about the land and the sea and how to hunt, gather and prepare food. In those early years my mother, aunties and grandmother also taught me Yolŋu sign language. I moved to Yirrkala when I was 7 years old to start school, but I return to Buymarr often, I love it there. This picture gives you a glimpse of my relaxed homeland of Buymarr I visited often as a child to hunt, gather and play with friends and family.This is my homeland, Buymarr. My home by the sea and the rock mountain named Ŋalandarra, where the flag flew. Ŋuykal (kingfish) swim in the saltwater at Buymarr, we stand up on the rockmountain, Ŋalandarra to see where they are schooling, then we know where to go  spear fishing. Buymarr and the long beach that stretches up to the sacred river called Gutatjpirrarr of the Yirritja moiety and when we look out over the saltwater we can see the sacred white Yirritja rock called Dhukururru. My märi (mother’s, mother) is of the Yirritja moiety, the Wangurri clan, and is the landowner of Buymarr. Our family are the caretakers.Waŋa marrkap’mirri My beloved homeland