Babbarra Women's Centre in Maningrida, Northern Territory | Charitable organisation

Babbarra Women's Centre

Locality: Maningrida, Northern Territory

Phone: +61 8 8979 5775

Address: Maningrida Community 0822 Maningrida, NT, Australia

Website: http://babbarra.com/

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25.01.2022 HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY! From our picnic to yours we celebrate the strength, resilience, wisdom and beauty of all women. #babbarradesigns #iwd2021 #iwd #incountry #picnic #maningrida #indigenouswomen #indigenousknowledge #indigenousaustralia @bawinanga_aboriginal_corp

25.01.2022 BAWINANGA GIFT HAMPERS repost @maningridaarts Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation has created the perfect unique Christmas gift idea to delight friends, family and VIP clients in a year that has been far from ordinary. And it will be a gift that keeps giving because your purchase will support Aboriginal artists and their families at a time when their livelihoods have been massively affected by Covid-19 impacts. Choose from three hampers presented in bespoke woven baskets, fill...ed with products sourced from Maningrida Wild Foods, Babbarra Women’s Centre and Maningrida Arts and Culture. The product range includes Babbarra Designs’ men’s tie and linen tea towel, Mardanggich (Kakadu Plum) spice mix, Frank Green x Babbarra Designs Keep Cup, a handcrafted necklace, I am the Old, I am the New Mawurndjul catalogue, Jarracharra Exhibition catalogue. We can compile and quote a hamper tailored to your needs or you can order one of these three. Visit www.maningridaarts.com #bawinanga #chrismasgift #supportlivingartists #christmashampers

24.01.2022 DJANG AND WANGARR- TGE POWER BEHIND OUR ART Read the full Liberty London article here: https://www.libertylondon.com//fabric-makers-saloon-design @bawinanga_aboriginal_corp @maningridaarts @SALOONDESIGNHOUSE ... #slowfashion #libertylondon #libertyprint #kunibidjicountry #bawinanga #babbarra #babbarradesigns #maningrida

24.01.2022 RAYLENE BONSON || Raylene has her Wubbunj design featured in our new Kip&Co collection. A talented textile artist, Raylene specialises in linocut technique. She has been working with Bábbarra Designs since 2012. Raylene was mentored by her late mother, Nancy Gununwanga, a senior textile artist at Bábbarra Designs and a founding member of Bábbarra Women’s Centre.... Quote 'I feel good Australia will see my design and know my story. The Bábbarra ladies are so strong. We have the strongest ladies at the women’s centre. We always work together, and feel proud of our work here,’ shares Raylene. Raylene is well known for her designs depicting ancestral stories and ceremonial objects, in particular lorrkkon (hollow log for burial ceremony), kunmadj (dillybag) and mandjabu (conical fishtrap). Her ancestor spirits are Yawkyawk (female water spirit), and Djaddi (green monkey frog). Her artwork is Wubbunj, 2016. Wubbunj is our traditional canoe. This design is the old history story of how people came to live in this place we call Maningrida. Two old people were staying on the other side of the saltwater, in Narlarrambarr area. The old people slept in a paper bark shelter and hunted on the water using their canoe. One day these old people saw a new boat in their waters, which belonged to the Makassans (Indonesians). Those two old men saw the big Makassan boat coming in, and decided to paddle their canoe from Narlarrambarr to the other side (modern day Maningrida). We were scared of the Makassans, they gave us tobacco and tea, but they took many of our women. When those two old people tasted that water at Maningrida from the Djomi spring, it was sweet freshwater and they decided to stay here. Link to more one-off prints https://babbarra.com/artist/raylene-bonson/ Images by @kipandco #kipandcoxbabbarra #kipandco #babbarra #homewares #ethical #indigenousdesign #womenartists #bawinanga

24.01.2022 KUN-NGOL (CLOUDS) WORN BY WAMUTJAN UNOCHA Wamutjan Unocha Taylor’s aspiration is to be a role model for youth and for her community. Unocha grew up in Maningrida and on homeland NT. She speaks Martay Burarra. What are your interests? ... ‘ Cooking, art, modelling, designing, listening to stories from elders and being on country. ‘ Do you have a role model? ‘ Yes, Magnolia Maymuru’ @_mewuraa_ What are your aspirations? ‘To become a fashion designer’ Favourite quote Strong women May we be them May we raise them" (unknown) Unocha is wearing E Kandabuma Kun-ngol (clouds) design on her leg pants coming soon to our online store. Fabric available via link in bio. #indigenousfashion @publishertextiles #babbarradesigns #maningrida #bawinangaaboriginalcorporation #printdesign

23.01.2022 Not long now. Three days to go to launch day!

21.01.2022 SHOW US YOUR BÁBBARRA || One of our wonderful DAAF customers sent us a photo of a screen print panel stretched on canvas and we love it! Seen here:... Artwork: Susan Marawarr - Kun-wadde dja Manyawok (Rocks and Cheeky Yam) Printer: Deralisa Brown We still have a few more panels for sale via link https://babbarra.com/artwork/uvbrltgg/185/ #babbarradesigns #bawinanga #textiledesign #maningridaartcentre #bawinangaaboriginalcorporation #interiordesign

20.01.2022 Our hand printed tea towels are 100% linen and make wonderful gifts! Seen here: 1. Raylene BonsonDesign - Kunmadj (dilly bags) 2. Deborah Wurrkidj Design- Manngalele (white currant)... 3. Lucy Yarawanga Design - Bawaliba Link in bio or visit https://babbarra.com/shop/tea-towels/ #bawinanga#maningridaartcentre #Babbarradesigns #babbarrawomenscentre #bawinangaaboriginalcorporation #arnhemland #linoprinting #printdesign #textiledesign #giftideas

20.01.2022 JENNIFER WURRKIDJ || Jennifer is one of the seven women featured in our Kip&Co x Bábbarra collaboration. Jennifer is a Kuninjku artist from the Kurulk clan whose country lies around the outstation of Mumeka in central Arnhem Land. ... Sister of Deborah Wurrkidj (another of our collaboration artists), the two women are the nieces (daughters in Kuninjku relational terms) of Australia’s most highly acclaimed bark painter, John Mawurndjul. The two women are renowned, in their own right, for their bark paintings, hollow logs and carved sculptures. Jennifer’s artwork has been exhibited throughout Australia and her textile art is in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia. The title of her artwork is Kunronj, 2007. It depicts important manme (food) from freshwater environments on Jennifer’s country and the traditional tools used to gather them.The kunkaninj (digging stick) is used to dig for wayuk (waterlily) roots, which are eaten fresh from the water or cooked on an open fire. The kunkaninj is also used to find and dig freshwater komrdawh (long necked turtles) which hibernate on the floodplains during the dry season.Various fish species including the birlmu (barramundi) are hunted with a spear or trapped inside a woven fish trap. After they are collected and hunted, these foods are carried back to camp in woven dilly bags called kunmadj. #kipandcoxbabbarra #kipandco #babbarra #homewares #ethical #indigenousdesign #womenartists #bawinanga

19.01.2022 We have revamped our DAAF booth! Man-djarduk (Red Bush Apples) design Sea Shells and Dillybags Dugongs design ... Gunja (Pandanus Weaving) and more.. https://daaf.com.au/Art_Centres/babbarra-designs/ Www.babbarra.com

19.01.2022 KALIDJAN’S CREATION STORIES DANCE UPON CLOTH... Janet (Kalidjan) Marawarr freely explores colour and layout to express her ancestral creation stories, She dances with Yawkyawk (young women spirit), Namorodo (bad angel) and Andjolpo ‘this was an old lady and she create that language and the world before’. The cockatoo, dog and kunmadj (pandanus mat) also move in and out of her designs. These new pieces of Lino printed cloth are available via links: ... Kunmadj, Cockatoo and Mimih https://babbarra.com/artwork/r5egluqu/linoprints/ Yawkyawk (spirit woman), Kunmadj (pandanus mat) and dog 100% Cotton https://babbarra.com/artwork/y1rnaavu/ Namorodo (bad angel) 100% Linen https://babbarra.com/artwork/cs9hduad/212/#top Andjolpo (creation spirit) - 100% Silk https://babbarra.com/artwork/xkknkrdh/212/#top Yawkyawk (spirit woman), kunmadj, dog and Namorodo (bad angel) 100% Cotton https://babbarra.com/artist/janet-marawarr/ @maningridaarts #babbarradesigns #lino #linocut #linoprint #ancestralstories #indigenoustextiles #handprintedtextiles #bawinanga #maningrida

19.01.2022 Members of the European Parliament in Brussels wearing protective masks made from Bábbarra fabric. Photo courtesy of Australian Embassy, Brussels Vielen Dank Ulrike Müller, MdEP and Winkler Gyula MEP wearing Manwak design by DWurrkidj. ... #Jarracharraexhibitiontour #maningridatobrussels #COVID19 #Staysafe #bawinanga

18.01.2022 DAAF has been extended! Now closing Sunday 16th August. We’ve just uploaded some new fabric to the booth including Djomi by Joy Garlbin printed today on lime green cotton drill. The Djomi dreaming is described to be a long lady spirit with fish like tales that comes from a water stream that flows out to the sea cliff of Maningrida. It is a known to be a women fertile water stream.... ‘if you go there you can get pregnant, Djomi has babies, you can have babies’ Here are two Dreaming ladies Djómi and Bábbarra. These two are sisters: one freshwater 'mermaid' and one saltwater one. ‘Babbarra billabong is inland, Djomi is near the saltwater’ - Joy Garlbin #daaf #darwinartfair #indigenoustextiles #indigenousdesign #bawinanga #onlineartfair @ Babbarra Women's Centre

17.01.2022 ‘I feel good waking up in the morning, knowing I am going to Bábbarra. After work I go home and talk about my printing with all my family, and then I dream about it too. I am always thinking about my designs. They make me feel so proud. Lucy Yarawanga. Lucy Yarawanga is a prolific print designer working at Bábbarra Women’s Centre using the medium of linocut prints on fabric. This week she has been busy printing her Bawaliba (Stone Country Mimih) to get ready for the Tarnan...thi exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. Pictured here: 1. Lucy Yarawanga holding her designs for Tarnanthi 2020 2. Bawaliba linocut print in red and blue 3. Bawaliba linocut print in green and blue Bawaliba linocut print multicoloured To purchase new artwork visit www.babbarra.com/lucyyarawanga #bawinanga #maningridaartcentre #Babbarradesigns #babbarrawomenscentre #bawinangaaboriginalcorporation #arnhemland #linoprint #printdesign #textiledesign #Tarnanthi #knowmyname #agsa

16.01.2022 BRIGHTS ARE BACK! Today we printed Kylie Hall’s Gunga (Pandanus) on a beautiful turquoise silk for an exhibition coming up at Cairns Art Gallery. More silk and more info coming soon! Joy Garlbin in the second picture admiring the registration. ... @cairnsartgallery @maningridaarts @rubenbobbie #indigenoustextiles #silk #bright #turquoise #dillybag #indigenousfabricdesign

16.01.2022 NEW PRINTS ONLINE || We have updated our online store with new prints- https://babbarra.com/artwork/vksmh7j6/... https://babbarra.com/artwork/5jr3hfr1/218/ https://babbarra.com/artwork/cyhinohd/ https://babbarra.com/artwork/hm8n2trv/

16.01.2022 NAIDOC MANINGRIDA 2020 NAIDOC week celebrates the history and culture of Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people and recognises that First Nations people are spiritually and culturally connected to country. For NAIDOC 2020, we want to introduce our emerging models and share their talents, interests and natural beauty. Meet Ngardichan Jamielia Milpurr from the Maung /Burarra language group. Jamielia grew up in Goulburn Island and Maningrida, West Arnhem Land. We asked he...r a few questions about herself. What are your interests? Modeling, football, school, camping Who is your favourite role model? Jessica Mauboy !! Any life goals or aspirations? ‘I want to be famous and have my own business She’s wearing the Kunwadde Dja Manyawok (Rocks and Cheeky Yam) dress by Susan Marawarr and designed/manufactured by Publisher Textiles as part of an exclusive collection. #babbarra #babbarradesigns #bawinanga #bawinangaaboriginalcorporation #alwayswasalwayswillbe #NAIDOC #indigenousfashion #Maningridaartcentre #textiledesign #handprinted #screenprint @pubtextiles

15.01.2022 EIFFEL TOWER SCULPTURE || Deborah Wurrkidj is a finalist in the prestigious NATSIAA art awards, for the second year running. This year, for her innovative sculptural work inspired by her international travels. Luke Scholes, NATSIAA’s curator, said about her work:... In 2019, a group of artists from the Bábbarra Women’s Centre in Maningrida, a remote Aboriginal coastal community in West Arnhem Land, travelled to Paris for an exhibition. Impressed after her visit to the Eiffel Tower, one of the group, Deborah Wurrkidj vowed to use it as inspiration. As she remembers ‘I saw that tower, and I said I’ll go back to Maningrida and I’ll make her, that tower. Yes, I can weave that tower in our way, our Aboriginal way‘ The end result is a remarkably innovative sculpture made primarily with pandanus leaves collected around Maningrida. Ngaye ngawam nganang kunred kukimukken, kubba nakornamkuyeng karri. (I travelled a long way away, to that place with the tall tower) 2020, Pandanus, natural dyes (bulbs, roots, pandanus leaves), eucalyptus wood, Kurrajong; 150 x 83 x 93 cm The Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) exhibition @mag_nt Darwin Dates 8th Aug 2020 - 31st Jan 2021 Or visit the virtual gallery. Link below. https://natsiaa.com.au/

14.01.2022 DEBORAH WURRKIDJ || Deborah is a Kuninjku artist from the Kurulk clan, whose country lies around the outstation of Mumeka in central Arnhem Land. Quote from deborah... ' kamak (good) we going to see our design, its coming all the way from melbourne to here' Deborah is an accomplished artist working across mediums including painting, sculpture, weaving and textile design. She is world renowned for her bark painting, lorrkkon (hollow logs), and fibre baskets. She has exhibited widely since 2001, throughout Australia as well as in Europe and the United States. She is represented in most of Australia’s state gallery collections. Her ancestor spirits are Dadbe (King brown snake), Djimarr (Black crow), and Buluwana (woman spirit). Deborah has two designs in the Kip&Co collection. The title of her artwork is Manwak, Manwak design depicts the Manwak flower, which grows on her Country in central Arnhem Land. "It's a flower with green petals and red in the middle, and it's a bush food that we pick when we're walking or going hunting," she said. The title of her second artwork is Marebu, 2012. It depicts Marebu, woven pandanus mats, which Deborah often weaves for the Maningrida Arts and Culture Centre, the sister Art Centre to Bábbarra Women’s Centre in Maningrida. To see more of Deborah designs visit our website https://babbarra.com/artist/deborah-wurrkidj/ #kipandcoxbabbarra #kipandco #babbarra #homewares #ethical #indigenousdesign #womenartists #bawinanga

14.01.2022 A productive day in the studio. Printing Jennifer Wurrkidj popular three screen design Kukurlk Kare (Going Underground). Coming soon on our website www.babbarra.com

14.01.2022 ELIZABETH WULLUNMINGU || Lizzy started sewing and designing at Bábbarra in 2010 and is a key member of the sewing team. Her artistic talent comes from her mother who was an artist for the iconic Desert Designs label. Elizabeth designed and sewed outfits for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Her ancestor spirits are Rrugurrgurda (Crab) and Jin-Merdawa (Saltwater Mermaid).... Her artwork in this collaboration depicts mud crabs. This design tells the story of Elizabeth’s homeland, east of Maningrida, at the mouth of Blyth river. Many families go to that country to collect crabs, hunting in mangrove holes with long sticks, or spearing the crabs directly on the shore. Mud crabs hide in the muddy bottoms of estuaries and mangrove forests in areas surrounding Maningrida.After a king tide, a large cyclical tide which bring the crabs out from the mangroves, it is the perfect time to find crabs. Rrugurrgurda (mud crabs) is pronounced Ahh-rewg-gurd-gurda in the Burarra language. Rrugurrgurda are good baladji (bush food in Burarra) and can be caught all year round.They are put on the fire to cook and they are ready when they turn a bright orange colour. #kipandcoxbabbarra #kipandco #babbarra #homewares #ethical #indigenousdesign #womenartists #bawinanga See more

11.01.2022 DJOMI SINGLE PANELS Artist Joy Garlbin Joy one of our senior cultural advisors and TO (Traditional Owner of Maningrida) depicts the story of her ancestral dreaming the Djomi in her textile work, with permission from her djunguys (cultural caretaker) she’s able to tell her story through her magnificent first ever two screen design.... 'The Djomi dreaming is described to be a long lady spirit with fish like tales that comes from a water stream that flows out to the sea cliff of Maningrida.It is a known to be a women fertile water stream.' Www.babbarra.com

11.01.2022 ‘I like lino, print my design and doing different way to print my lino, different colours and different way. I print lino Yawkyawk (spirit woman) and Andjolpo. This was an old lady and she create that language and the world before. I also print Rolk (maggot), my mother design cause I’m the Djunkay (land manager) for her.' Janet Marawarr 2020 This week master textile artist Janet Marawarr has been busy working with contemporary repeat patterns, colour blocking and lino tiles ...to express her djang (Aboriginal religious belief). Babbarra Women’s Centre is a place where women lay down their cultural knowledge, tile by tile. Visit website for new work by Janet https://babbarra.com/artist/janet-marawarr/ Pictured here: 1. Janet Marawarr printing lino for the 2020 Tarnanthi exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art. 2. Mankongko (Peanut tree or red fruited kurrajong with greenish white flowers in in kurrung to kudjewk seasons) Sterculia quadrifida 2. Marebu (Pandanus mat) and Malaworrno (Jungle leaves) 3. Marebu (Pandanus Mat), Yawkyawk (female water spirit) and Rolk (maggot) #bawinanga #maningridaartcentre #babbarradesigns #babbarrawomenscentre #bawinangaaboriginalcorporation #arnhemland #linoprint #printdesign #textiledesign #tarnanthi

10.01.2022 VOGUE-LIVING// A recent article in Vogue-Living highlighting 5 finalist of the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. '5 First Nation artists making waves in a big way' ... We are thrilled to have Deborah Wurrkidj Eiffel Tower sculpture named as one of the 5 highlights. link below https://www.vogue.com.au//image-gallery/ea54c01dff680ad74d #bawinanga #vogueaustralia

10.01.2022 20K Instagram followers! Thank you to everyone who has been following our page, our stories and our journey! Thank you for supporting our small women's enterprise. We hope to continue to empower, create and advocate for women and families in our community and homelands. ... From all of us Bábbarra Daluk. Thank you #babbarrawomencentre #womensocialenterprise #empowercommunity #bawinanga

09.01.2022 H LANYINWANGA For cultural reason referred to as H was a senior textile artist, who often depicted strong stone country and sacred rock themes in her designs. H had a key role mentoring young and emerging artists at Bábbarra from 2008 until she passed away in 2018. H is mother to leading Bábbarra artists Jennifer Wurrkidj and Deborah Wurrkidj, and grandmother to Ruth Bindiedbal. The Kip&Co X Bábbarra range uses H Ngarduk Kunred design, detailing the cracked rocks and earth... lying at the base of a freshwater stream on her country. Her family were proud when her design was used in this new collaboration. H was an accomplished artist in other mediums, notably basket weavings and prints on paper, for which she is represented by Maningrida Arts & Culture. Her artwork has toured the United States and been exhibited throughout Australia, and her textile art is in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia. H ancestor spirits were Djaddi (Brown frog) and Yawkyawk (female water spirits). Her country was Barrihdjowkkeng homeland, west of Maningrida. #kipandcoxbabbarra #kipandco #babbarra #homewares #ethical #indigenousdesign #womenartists #maningridaarts #bawinanga

05.01.2022 Njangárridj Lekaiya Rabbitt’s goal is to stay fit and healthy by playing different sports and to one day become a professional athlete who inspires others. Babbarra Design’s are showcasing some strong and beautiful young women this week as part of our NAIDOC celebrations. #naidoc2020 ‘My name is Lekaiya, some people call me Kai, my skin name is Njangárridj in the Ndjébbana kinship system. My interests are a mix of the strengths within my family who have inspired me through a...rts, AFL and the many types of sports. I enjoy playing on my Xbox, spending time at school with friends and also families in Brisbane and Maningrida. I think it’s important to have a good laugh wherever we can because it can make us all feel good. I have many role models and my main ones are my Makka (fathers mum) and my Kakkak (mothers mum) because they are strong, wise and caring women who always inspire and support me as I grow.’ Lekaiya Rabbitt 2020 Lekaiya is the grand daughter of one of the founders of Babbarra Women’s centre Lekaiya is wearing a Lorrkkon (Hollow Funeral Log) dress by artist Susan Marawarr and designed by Publisher Textiles. Follow link in bio or: https://babbarra.com/artwork/y2pmydi2/ #indigenousfashion @publishertextiles #bawinanga #maningridaartcentre #Babbarradesigns #babbarrawomenscentre #bawinangaaboriginalcorporation #arnhemland #printdesign #kunibidjicountry

05.01.2022 NEW COLLABORATION || We have a very exciting announcement ready for the 4th September 2020, which we have been waiting a long time to share with you all. It started two years ago after our senior women artists had a new idea for how they wanted to use their designs. ... We reached out a women led, ethical Melbourne based team, who have since then been working closely with Bábbarra and seven of our artists. We are now proud to be almost ready to share this range with you and your homes. The profits from this collaboration are shared, and will support our artists and the livelihoods of Maningrida women. We are pretty sure you'll love it as much as we do!

05.01.2022 Good News// Kip&Co X Babbarra Collection Stockist have just received their orders! We are delighted that our long term stockist since 2013 in the Northern Territory, Social Enterprise Starwin, is now retailing our popular Kip&Co range! ... The Kip&Co X Bábbarra range is available now through their website https://starwin.com.au/ or in-store Darwin shopfront on mitchell street. Visit Starwin online or in person to get your favourite pieces from the Kip&Co X Bábbarra collection now. #starwinenterprise #darwinlocal #kip&coxbabbarracollection #bawinanga

05.01.2022 JANET MARAWARR || Janet is one of the seven artists featured in the new Kip&Co x Bábbarra collection. Her ancestor spirits are Mandjurlukkun (Wild black berries), and Dadbe (King brown snake). Janet is a talented linocut and screen print designer. She regards textile design as an opportunity to work with colour and a new method to express her djang (ancestral creator stories).... As well as her artistic work with Bábbarra Women’s Centre, she works for the Bawinanga Night Patrol, a community safety service. The title of her artwork is Kunkurra, 2015. The work depicts the spiralling wind associated with several sites in the Kardbam clan. The artwork has two stories. First, it shows the kinds of mini-cyclones common during the wet season in Arnhem Land. Secondly, Kunkurra relates specifically to a site called Bilwoyinj, near Mankorlod, on Janet’s husband’s clan estate. At this site, two of the most important Kuninjku creation beings, a father and son known as nakorrkko, are believed to have hunted and eaten a goanna. They left some of the goanna fat behind at the site, which turned into the rock that still stands there today. #kipandcoxbabbarra #kipandco #babbarra #homewares #ethical #indigenousdesign #womenartists #bawinanga

04.01.2022 NEW METERAGE BACK IN STORE Artist: E Kandabuma (deceased) Design: Kun-ngol (Clouds) Colourway: sky blue base with mustard and dusty blue ink on 100% cotton. ... ‘A favourite print, Kun-ngol (Clouds) depicts certain clouds that signal to people of central Arnhem Land that the end of the wet season is approaching. After months of daily monsoonal rain in Arnhem Land, these clouds are light and fluffy, not like the dark heavy clouds of the monsoonal sky. At the time of the Kun-ngol clouds, people know the country will soon dry up and the cold season (dry season) will arrive. When the Kun-ngol clouds appear, all of the billabongs are already filled, the rivers are high and the country is brimming with life and fresh new growth after months of fresh water pouring from the sky.’ Babbarra Designs Available via link https://babbarra.com/artwork/9owgf3ln/ #babbarradesigns #screenprint #textiledesign #indigenousfashion #indigenousfabrics @maningridaarts @bawinanga_aboriginal_corp

04.01.2022 We would like to introduce you to Gelijan Zekahalia Yibarbuk, one of our featured Babbarra Designs models as well as a focused high school student and grand-niece of leading emerging textile artist, Lucy Yarawanga. Zekahalia grew up between Maningrida, Yirrkala & South Australia. She is a Gurr-goni/ Yolngu Matha language speaker. Gurr-goni is a vulnerable Australian Aboriginal language spoken in Arnhem Land. Approximately 60 speakers recorded in the 2001 census. (Wiki) Wha...t are your interests? I’m interested in doing modeling, going out fishing and camping. Who inspires you? My role model is my big sister, my mum and Magnolia Maymuru. What are your goals? My goals are finishing my year 12, going to uni and becoming a model. Favourite life quite? keep your head up and don’t people bring you down Gelijan Zekahalia Yibarbuk looks beautiful dressed in the Man-kurndalh (Black Plums) by Deborah Wurrkidj as part of the Publisher & Babbarra collection. This limited edition skirt is available now via link in bio or: https://babbarra.com/artwork/t05xswae/ #indigenousfashion @publishertextiles @_mewuraa_ #bawinanga #maningridaartcentre #Babbarradesigns #naidoc #babbarrawomenscentre #bawinangaaboriginalcorporation #arnhemland #printdesign #kunibidjicountry

04.01.2022 CHRISTMAS DONATION CALLOUT 2020 For the last three years we have coordinated a ‘Christmas Drive’ where we travel around Maningrida and remote homelands giving out presents. We love to share the joy and generosity of the season and we are known by our iconic red and green manwak (mumeka blooms) troopie. Due to the road floods and storms of the wet season, families that choose to stay on their homelands are cut off from town and have little opportunity to purchase gifts. ... If you wish to donate this year, we would love toys, sports goods, kids clothes, towels, sheets, art supplies, fishing goods, sewing supplies, books or blankets. Our postal address is: Babbarra Op Shop (christmas drive) PMB 102 WINNELLIE NT 0822 Australia If you would rather make a financial contribution, we welcome any donation small or big at https://babbarra.com/support/ Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation services 32 homelands in remote locations across Western Arnhem Land. We are thrilled to be able to support young families during the holiday season. We are so thankful to our loyal Babbarra Designs customers and those who have donated so generously over the last year. Photography: Babbarra Women’s Centre Christmas drive 2019 #bawinanga #babbarra #bawinagaaboriginalcorporation #babbarradesigns #maningrida #kunibidjicountry #christmasdonations #socialenterprise @bawinanga_aboriginal_corp

04.01.2022 THANK YOU || What an amazing response to our Kip&Co X Bábbarra collaboration! We are so pleased you all love the range so much. We have received many orders already, and are currently working out a pre order system to ensure we can fill all the next orders promptly. Our website is currently showing ‘sold out’ while we work with Kip&Co to ensure more stock is available soon- please stay tuned and thanks for your patience.

03.01.2022 In the studio today. Printing one of our favourites the 'Diving Bird' design by Chamaine Pascoe. Charmaine speaks as many as five languages including Djinang and Walaki one of many critically endangered languages. This design tells the creation story of a large river which flows through the inland shared by very remote homelands. ... 'This diving bird flew from near Gapuwiyak and dived near Gatji outstation, it swam and made the long river, where we go fishing, this design is for my children to learn and for my family' Charmaine.

02.01.2022 KIP & Co X BABBARRA It’s here, after two years in the making. The collection showcasing the contemporary art of our artists at Bábbarra. ‘I feel good Australia will see my design and know my story. The Bábbarra ladies are so strong. We have the strongest ladies at the women’s centre. We always work together, and feel proud of our work here,’ shares Raylene.... Eight unique artworks from seven artists featured in the collaboration; Deborah Wurrkidj, Elizabeth Wullunmingu, Helen Lanyinwanga (deceased), Janet Marawarr, Jennifer Wurrkidj, Margot Gurawiliwili, and Raylene Bonson. We know that when women are financially empowered, the flow on effects for children and families are significant, This project was the idea of the Bábbarra women, who have long wanted to have their designs featured on a bed linen range. It was their idea, and a significant consideration was made to ensure the artists’ interests were positioned first. As a collaborative partner Kip&Co was the perfect fit, as they are proudly owned and run by women, and create high-quality homewares with a commitment to responsible sourcing and sustainable practices so there was instant synergy" - Jessica Phillips, Babbarra Women’s Centre Manager The Kip&Co collection has been shortlisted in the Textiles Design category for TDF+laminex Design Awards. Bábbarra and Kip&Co divide all profits from this collaboration equally. Head to our website to see and purchase the collection. https://babbarra.com/kip-and-co-babbarra/ #babbarrawomenscentre #kipandcoxbábbarra #kipandco #collboration #bawinanga Photos courtesy of @kipandco and @babbarradesigns

01.01.2022 MARGOT GURAWILIWILI || Margot Gurawiliwili's design Djenj dja komrdawh (Fish and Long necked turtle) in her language Kuninjku, is one of the seven artists featured in our Kip&Co x Bábbarra collaboration. In addition to being a strong textile artist, Margot is also a talented weaver, skillfully weaving pandanus into colourful baskets and dillybags. She uses a number of weaving techniques, including coiling and twinning, and makes a range of functional and ceremonial... objects, including baskets, dilly bags, string bags and mats. The vines depicted in this design grow naturally on the floodplains in Arnhem Land and are used by women to weave and create fibre sculpture.The long-necked turtle and freshwater fish depicted are popular bush foods. My country is called Mankorlod. It is near the rock country. My dreaming is komrdawh (long neck turtle), the one I painted in my design. I like to eat komrdawh, it tastes really nice. We catch them in dry and wet season near Mankorlod. This is my first ever design, and I only have one design. I painted it with brush at Bábbarra Women’s Centre, and I feel proud when people print my design. #kipandcoxbabbarra #kipandco #babbarra #homewares #ethical #indigenousdesign #womenartists #bawinanga