(b Galiwin’ku, Elcho Island, 1 Jan 1935). Australian Aboriginal painter. As a leader of the Gälpu clan of the Dhuwa moiety of north-east Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory he alternated residence between Elcho and his homeland at Gekal on the mainland. He learnt the artistic and sculptural forms and meanings of Yolngu art from his father, Murupula Gurruwiwi. He used a combination of figurative and geometric designs in his bark paintings to represent sacred ancestral law. Figurative elements include animals, objects, plants, ancestral beings or Yolngu connected with the Gälpu clan; the geometric patterns locate these elements at specific sacred sites. One notable painting, Sacred Wurrkadi, purchased by the Australian National Gallery at Canberra in 1980, depicts the larvae of the horned beetle representing the children of the clan against a background of cross-hatching. The Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences at Darwin also houses some of his works, notably a painting (purchased 1981) of the Sacred Morning Star Ceremony, depicting the Morning Star attached to a pole as a symbol of connectivity linking the Gälpu clan to other Dhuwa clans related by the ceremony.