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The Prints Story
Buku-Larrnggay Mulka has been doing lino, screen and etching print workshops with Basil Hall Editions with artists from this community, Yirrkala and the homelands of the Miwatj region, since 1996. When we first started working on lino prints we thought it was very exciting and something new for our community to learn.

Every Lino print has to be the design of the artist’s own clan or connecting clans. The design has to be done very carefully so as not to mix them up, and to understand their story. We have to talk about it with other people in that clan, so when the design is printed there is no problem. It’s a similar idea to the traditional designs used in the bark paintings and the wood carving, but in printmaking we get the direction from our elders to design the image of the outside story only. In the workshop a lot of Yolngu come and watch what we do in the printshop so they can understand the process.
Marrnyula Mununggurr and Mundul Wunungmurra Mununggurr

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