August is a special month for gapuwiyak Culture & arts aboriginal Corporation, as it marks the occasion of their fi rst commercial art exhibition. This will feature exquisite painting, sculpture and yidaki by Gapuwiyak’s skilled male artists as well as fi bre art from the community’s women artists.

After a trip to Bathurst Island in 2009 for the Tiwi Art Sale and Football Grand Final, Darwin Festival staff were inspired by the mural paintings on the boatshed in Nguiu and decided to commission two Larrakia artists to create a mural for the walls of their new Lighthouse.