Madarrpa

Born in 1953

Homeland: Baniyala/Yilpara

First and foremost a leader, art is one of the tools Djambawa Marawili uses to lead. Djambawa as a senior artist as well as sculpture and bark painting has produced linocut images and produced the first screen print image for the Buku-Larrgay Mulka Print size. His principle roles are as a leader of the Madarrpa clan, a caretaker for the spiritual well-being of his own and other related clans and an activist and administrator in the interface between non-Aboriginal people and the Yolngu people of North East Arnhem Land.