Tim Richards<p>An interesting art exhibition on in Darwin, if you happen to be travelling there:</p><p>'The winner of the 2025 $100,000 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, the richest in the Aboriginal art world, is North-East Arnhem Land artist Gaypalani Wanambi for her work Burwu (blossom in Yolngu language).</p><p>'It is a giant, three-square-metre glittering metal work, etched onto 15 discarded road signs, depicting Wuyal, the ancestral honey hunter of her Marrakulu clan. It features honeybees that gather nectar from their local stringybark trees.</p><p>'“When the stringybark trees blossom, it tells us the Wuyal honey is ready,” said Wanambi, whose surname in Yolngu means “sacred stringybark”.'</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Darwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Darwin</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NT</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/the-discarded-outback-road-signs-that-became-a-prize-winning-artwork-20250807-p5mla5.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">smh.com.au/culture/art-and-des</span><span class="invisible">ign/the-discarded-outback-road-signs-that-became-a-prize-winning-artwork-20250807-p5mla5.html</span></a></p>