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Explore some of Yapa Mali’s exciting projects, work and collaborations

Emerging Mob in Fashion x Fujitsu

PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival 2024

Back in Blak Runway x Mob in Fashion

Paypal Melbourne Fashion Festival 2025

YAPA MALI X GARUWA

Credits
Storyteller: Maddy Hodgetts
Director: Kieran Satour
DOP and Grade: Andrew Amanaki, Amanaki Studios
Editor: Josh Amanaki, Amanaki Studios
Camera Assistant: Del-Ray Fruean
Photographer: James Evans
Talent: Christopher "Burra" McHughes, Karley Barker, Niqua Morris, Tia Higgins and Riley Higgins
Filmed on the Traditional Country of the Ngiyampaa people in New South Wales. Always was, always will be.
Special thanks to Lacey Boney, the Brewarrina community and the GARUWA team.

Kirralaampuwan

Acrylic on Canvas
2024
This is the children’s version of the story told by Uncle John Shipp
Back in the Ngurrumpaa, as the people moved around the land, they saw many stars falling from the sky onto where Girilambone is today.
When the people found where the stars had fallen, they discovered that there were beautiful and precious stones lying everywhere, so they all started to gather them.
The surrounding tribes had also seen the stars falling, and they too had come to investigate. Being mesmerised by the beauty of the stones, they started collecting them as well.
Fights started breaking out amongst all the people as they became greedier and greedier for the beautiful stones.
Biami watched on as the people fighting over these precious stones were breaking the law that all people should not be greedy. He covered the stones over and created the hills that we see today at Girilambone as a reminder to everyone to share and not become greedy
Bunggan

Acrylic on Canvas
2023
This artwork depicts the Puugan River that starts in Wiradjuri Country and flows through Wangaaypuwan Country. With influences of traditional Ngiyampaa styles, the artwork depicts a mapping line style seen in our local cave art. You can imagine your self flying over Country and looking down on the river, connected as one, one line and heart. One can’t live without the other.
Makukara Ngurra

Acrylic on Canvas
2022
This print depicts my Wangaaypuwan Country.
I’m flying over Country, I see the red dirt, I see the rivers, I see the mountains. All the different shapes of Country but all connected as one, one line and heart. One can’t live without the other.
That is the interconnectedness we share between our Country, the plants, the animals, and our People.