The Bulmba-ja LED facade currently features moving artwork by Marun Carl Fourmile,(Yidinji).
A still version of this artwork was presented in 2020 at the opening of the Bulmba-ja building, where the community was invited to the opening and these works were on view, and has now been re-worked into a digital animation.
Come and experience contemporary visual storytelling of traditional local stories on the Bulmba-ja LED facade: 96 Abbott Street, Cairns City.
I’m working with three main animated drawings on photographs of the Inlet and this Country, Gimuy. Two are traditional Yidinji stories that have been passed down to me. One I’ve drawn with my Grandfather’s shield design and the Balurr, which is a sacred curved woomera associated with the story of the Great Barrier Reef and the time just after the last Ice Age when we were still part of the land mass Sahul. We have stories about that time after the Ice Age with the rising of the tides and seas, as many cultures do. My Elders used the curved Woomera and would put it at the bow of the boat, as a blessing for the vessel and to calm the waters. This is a story passed down in our Bama history. The 3 warriors are figures there often come into my vision. The other story in there is how the crocodile got his teeth.”