Arnhem Land artist Djirirra Wunungmurra (Yirrkala) has been voted the People’s Choice Award winner as part of this year’s 29th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award.
The 44-year-old artist received 118 votes of the 1544 votes cast for her bark painting Yukuwa, which is one of the artist’s personal names and is also a yam, whose annual reappearance is a metaphor for the increase and renewal of the people and their land.