YIRRKALA

YIRRKALA, Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre is the Indigenous community owned art centre of Northeast Arnhem Land. Located in Yirrkala, a small Aboriginal community on the north eastern tip of the Top End of the Northern Territory, approximately 700km east of Darwin. The primarily Yolŋu (Aboriginal) staff of around twenty people services Yirrkala and the approximately twenty-five homeland centres in the radius of 200km. In the 1960’s, Narritjin Maymuru set up his own beachfront gallery from which he sold art that now graces many major museums and private collections around the world. He is counted among the art centre’s main inspirations and founders, and his picture hangs in the local art museum. His vision of Yolŋu-owned business to sell Yolŋu art that started with a shelter on a beach has now grown into a thriving business that exhibits and sells globally.