The artists saving traditional knowledge for the next generation
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Artistic collaboration between John Wolseley and Mulkun Wirrpanda will safeguard the practical and cultural significance of Indigenous food plants
English-born landscape artist John Wolseley and Mulkun Wirrpanda, a Yolngu bark painter from north-east Arnhem Land, may seem an unlikely alliance.
People might look at Wolseley, his lineage traceable to the Saxons, and Mulkun, the daughter of a murdered warrior, her Yolngu ancestors on this continent for tens of thousands of years before time held meaning, as coming from different worlds.