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JIMMY WULULU 1936 - 2005 Palm and Oysters, 1993 ochre on bark 144 x 60.5 cm bears label verso: listed as Joe Wululu, Milingimbi, Arnhem Land; Dua (Dhuwa) moiety and story PROVENANCE The Artist, painted in the Ramingining region, Central Arnhem Land, NT Collected by Sandra Le Brun Holmes, NSW Private collection, NSW Jimmy Wululu was a senior Gupapuyngu artist of the Yirritja moiety from the Milingimbi and Ramingining region of Arnhem Land, renowned for his precise rarrk (cross-hatching) and geometric clan designs. Palm and Oysters depicts the meeting of land and sea along the Arnhem Land coast, where freshwater mingles with tidal saltwater. The palm forms rise from the ground like ancestral markers, while clusters of oysters signal abundance and connection to the estuarine environment. Through intricate cross-hatching and natural ochres, Wululu captures the movement of wind, water, and light across Country. The painting embodies the spiritual and ecological balance at the heart of Gupapuyngu cosmology, linking ceremonial design to lived landscape. Created at the height of Wululu's bark-painting career, it stands as a meditation on the boundaries between land and sea, nature and ancestry, enduring themes in his celebrated practice. @ JIMMY WULULU / Copyright Agency, 2025