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Wanyubi has exhibited in various group exhibitions and his works hang in many private and public collections throughout Australia. Burnt Honey is one of Wanyubi's most recent works; it powerfully conveys the Yolngu concept of Buwayak or Invisibility, which refers to the emergent nature of figurative form in much Yolngu art. Figurative representations seem to merge in with the surrounding clan designs and become masked by the process of cross-hatching. The overall effect of the painting is one of translucence in which figurative forms can both be submerged and yet appear with clarity once seen. In his painting Daymirri, Wanyubi depicts an important Rirratjingu creation figure, Daymirri, the whale. Daymirri is the central figure in this work and is associated with the Dhambaliya where he can be seen manifest in the sea as a sacred rock Manhala. Manhala is represented in the painting as the white dome- shape at the head of the whale. Its colour and form refers to the rock itself, which has become bleached through an ongoing cycle of submergence in saltwater and exposure to the sun, as the tidal waters flow around it. In the painting Daymirri is accompanied by two black longtom fish who are escorting him through their country. |
 Burnt Honey, 2003 natural ochres on bark, 197 x 81 cm
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