Narritjin Maymuru
Narritjin Maymuru was a Yolngu people artist and activist noted for Bark painting. He began painting in the 1940s after time as a cook. After decades of work in 1979 he, and his son, became visiting artists at the Australian National University. HIs daughter Galuma Maymuru has become recognised as a significant Australian artist.
He died of a heart attack in 1981. His time in Canberra became the subject of a documentary film by Ian Dunlop titled Narritjin in Canberra.
