Yunupingu biography template
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Dr Mandawuy Yunupingu (–), singer songwriter, was the lead singer of Australia's pre-eminent Aboriginal band, Yothu Yindi..
Nyapanyapa Yunipingu Yolŋu , /10/
Acclaimed for her extraordinary gift of mark-making and storytelling, Ms N.
Yunupiŋu was one of the most celebrated and influential contemporary Aboriginal Australian artists. She was a sister to Galarrwuy Yunupiŋu AM, Mundawuy Yunupiŋu, AC (both Australians of the Year) and artists Gulumbu Yunupingu, Barrupu Yunupingu, Nancy Gaymala Yunupingu and Eunice Djerrkngu Ynupingu.
She was of the Gumatj people of East Arnhem Land and had been taught to paint by her father, the cultural leader Muŋgurrawuy Yunupiŋu.
For over two decades Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu worked from the remote community of Yirrkala in the Northern Territory, creating significant paintings, drawings, sculptures and screen-based works.
In , Yunupiŋu won the Wandjuk Marika Memorial 3D Award in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards with a piece that combined painting on eucalyptus bark with video to narrate a biograp