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Australian Prints + Printmaking

Donna Burak

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Name

Donna Burak

Culture

Aboriginal Australian

Gender

Female

Birth date

23 October 1972

Birth place

Milikapiti, Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia View on map Close map

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Occupations

Artist (painter) | Drawer | Printmaker

Summary

Worked: Australia (NT, ACT). Etchings, Linocuts, Lithographs

NGA IRN

14497

Context

Australia

Biography

Donna Burak

Donna Burak was born in Milikapiti on Melville Island in 1972. As a Tiwi woman she uses her skills to pass on the traditions and language of her people. She produces paintings, etchings and linocut prints. Burak won the Australian Heritage Commission National Youth Art Award in 1996.

 

© Australianprints, 2001

Affiliation

Tiwi people

ATSI region

North

Sub-region

Bathurst and Melville Islands

Specific location

Melville Island, Pirlangimpi [Pularampi]

Artist’s country

Munupi, Melville Island, Wularangka

Language

Tiwi

Clan

Japajapunga (March fly); skingroup, Yirrikapayi (crocodile)