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Roy Burnyila
Born: 1955
Language: Ganalbingu
Born in the bush on the mainland opposite Milingimbi, a prolific and very
collectible painter, Roy Burnyila depicts the traditional subject matter of
his group, the Ganalbingu people.
Roy’s style is distinctive as his palette tends toward light yellow and
whites which are offset by the black he puts in the cross-hatching. His cross-hatching
is different in that it is 'old fashioned' single colour line cross-hatching
as against the more familiar grouping of lines by colour. Here lines of the
same colour are laid down in fours, fives, or more before going onto the next
colour. Although artists are instructed by master painters, the number of
lines of each colour and the angling of their intersection in their work is
like the signature of each artist.
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