WOLPA WANAMBI
Born in 1970, Wolpa is the youngest daughter of the great Marrakulu painter and sculptor Dundiwuy Wanambi. Wolpa assisted in all of the major works produced by her father in the 1990s including the 1994 National Aboriginal Art Awards (best bark painting) and the Wagilag carvings in the National Gallery of Australia collection. Most of this work was done at their outstation of Gurka’wuy (Djerrkawuy). In the year of his death, Dundiwuy Wanambi granted that Wolpa’s name be attributed to a major bark painted entirely by her, under his instruction. In 2000, Wolpa won the National Indigenous Heritage Art Award.
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