• Size 144cm x 60cm
  
• Artist Woodinda Gurragila
• Acrylic on Canvas
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About the Artwork

“Warrany Bush Turkey” 

Woodinda’s paintings depict the important foods that were hunted, cooked and gathered by men of his tribe. Each piece is done with intense concentration and with strong cultural creative energy. His unique style and use of warm, rich strong and sometimes bold colours, always gives the canvas a relationship with his people, clan and country.

With other members of his family, he visits regularly many of the Principle waterholes and old campsites of the country in which he grew up, the country from whose ancient culture, come the stories and symbols that inspired Woodinda’s art.

About the Artist 

Woodinda Gurragila

Woodinda is from the Jirrbal clan and from Ravenshoe and belongs to the language group Djribalngan, skin group, Gurrgila. Woodinda was born in Far North Queensland, and is one of the few artists that is painting the traditional stories of the rainforest people.

In 1993 Woodinda was introduced to acrylic painting and since then he has expressed his artistic culture on canvas and water colour paper. The artist’s tradtional name, Woodinda is that of a great hunter of the Djribalngan people who lived back in the 1900’s to 1930’s, who’s name has been passed down from generation to generation.

Woodinda’s father also carried the same name and he too was a very talented artist. At a young age Woodinda was given his name by his grandmother, who is approaching 90 years of age and is still living in her tradtional area of Ravenshoe, Far North Queensland.