Artists - Gunbalanya Part I

Mary Badari often makes coiled bicornual pandanus handbags. She collaborates at times with husband Djawida Nadjongorle in combining his painting with her fibre work.

Julianne is well known for her development of the pandanus style handbag based on string bag techniques. She is married to Michael Bangalang. Julieanne works primarily at Injalak Arts and Crafts Centre.

Ruby Billidja frequently makes the older style conical twined baskets with three-strand twining. She made lidded baskets during mission times. Ruby was married to the famous painter Wally Mandarrk.

Judy's preferred technique is coiling. Her specialty is large bowls with strong patterning of blocks of alternating colours. Her daughter Shirley is also a fibre artist. Judy mainly works at home.

Djibugula's specialty is twining and she makes coiled baskets as well. Her twined mats feature unusual open spaces creating scalloped forms. She has work in Museum Victoria's collections from the seventies.

Labidja was a senior artist who made mainly coiled large carrying baskets and those with lids. Her preferred colour combinations were pink and orange. She lived at both Goulburn Island and Gunbalanya.

Margaret Djogiba makes objects in the classic style with twining creating mats and conical baskets that include threestrand twining. She participated in the Twined Together Workshop held at Melbourne Museum in 2003.

Dorothy Dullman uses coiling and her experimental work is with mats. She often works with her sister Margaret Djogiba and participated in the Twined Together Workshop at Melbourne Museum in 2003.