djalinda-yunupinu
Homeland: Biranybirany
Clan: Gumatj, Rrakpala group
Moiety: Yirritja
Father is Rayman. Mother was Banygul a senior daughter and artistic assistant of Mawalan 1 Marika. Djalinda was a witness to this process from the 1960s. From the 1980s assisted her mother(s) (Dhuwarrwarr, Laklak and Banduk) and painted in her own right in particular gifts for friends starting in the 1990s. She is a qualified teacher and has worked for twenty years in this role in her community, particularly at Yirrkala and Gutjaŋan on Bremer Island. She is a ceremonial participant and knowledgeable in the Rirratjiŋu as well as Gumatj law. She married from Elliot and had a son. Remarried after his death again from Elliot and had two more children. She has brought these children up in northeast Arnhem Land by herself since the death of her second husband. From about 2006 onwards she began to produce barks more regularly on the Rulyapa theme using innovative pigment mixing (pink, grey green) which were always very quickly purchased by visitors.
