Verity Bangarra

Verity Bangarra

Biography

Verity was born in Maningrida and is a Kunibidji land owner. Her mother was from Djinkarr and her father was born at Babbarra.

Bulandjan had 7 children from the ages of 25 to 7 and she remembered bringing the oldest to the women’s centre in 1998 when it was a creche as well as a creative workshop.

Verity was taught printing by the late Helen Williams, founder of the centre. Verity’s totems are Lady Dreaming and Djabayéna and she also makes work about Makéddja (Turtle). Her first screen print design from 2022 was the story of how the long neck turtle and short neck turtle swapped its fat. Bulandjan also loved to do designs about djomi, a mermaid from a site commonly called lady dreaming crossing on the Arnhem highway. 

 

Community

Maningrida

Outstation

Djinkarr

Date of birth

1980-02-06

Clan

Ndjebbana

Father's origin

Babbarra

Mother's origin

Djinkarr

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