Overview

• Visitors can explore nearly 300 works by 98 Yolŋu artists from the Arnhem Land community of Yirrkala at the Art Gallery of NSW through October 6, 2025.
• Works span eight decades, from mid-20th-century bark paintings to contemporary sculptures and immersive digital installations.
• Presented in partnership with the Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre, the exhibition underscores Indigenous self-determination through art.
• Yolŋu artists employ their creations as cultural diplomacy and political expression, tracing First Nations laws and the 1963 Bark Petitions.
• The Mulka Project’s new ‘Yalu’ light and sound commission opens in the gallery’s Nelson Packer Tank.