Rebecca Hossack with Gali Yalkarriwuy Gurruwiwi at his exhibition
Elcho Island is situated just off the coast of Arnhem Land. It is the ancestral home of several different language groups, most connected with the Yolngu people of the mainland.
The island has strong cultural traditions of weaving, carving and dancing, and these have all found continued expression in the community’s contemporary art practice – in the intricate constructions of fibre-artists, the wood-carvings of Judy Manany, and the distinctive ‘Morning Star Poles’ created by the ceremony’s chief custodian, Gali Yalkarriwuy Gurruwiwi.
