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Gunybi Ganambarr is a Yolngu artist who lives and works at Gängän, near Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. He began his artistic career painting on bark and larrakitj, but has since extended his practice with an experimental and innovative use of reclaimed materials, which include wood, rubber, glass, steel, galvanised iron and aluminium. Under the tutelage of artists such as Gawirrin Gumana, and Yumutjin Wunungmurra from his mother’s Dhaḻwaŋu clan, Ganambarr has been able to assume ceremonial authority, and this has shaped the content he is able to depict in his work. (Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney) His first works of art were carved and painted Ironwood sculptures such as this innovative Wurran or cormorant (a totemic species of his mother clan). His work gained renown when he participated in the National Sculpture Prize at the NGA in 2005. He later won the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Artist Award at the Gallery of Modern Art at Queensland Art Gallery.