Jimmy Wululu (1936-2005) was a Gupapuyngu (Yolgnu) painter and sculptor. He grew up at Milingimbi Methodist Mission and worked as a labourer and builder, continuing to build and tend stock after he started to paint professionally in the late 1970s. The major painter for his Gupapunyngu group from the early 1980s, he was a major contributor to the Aboriginal Memorial. His work was shown in the Dreamings exhibition in the USA in 1988 and fifteen of his poles featured in the Magiciens de la Terre show in Paris in 1989; he was also represented in The Continuing Tradition (1989), Paintings and Sculptures from Ramingining: Jimmy Wululu and Philip Gudthaykudthay at the Drill Hall Gallery (1992), Aratjara (1993-4) and Tyerabarrbowaryaou 2, I shall never become a whiteman at the MCA, Sydney (1994). His Bonggu Waterhole installation was shown at the Biennale of Sydney in 1998. Wululu often painted with David Malangi.
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