Raylene Bonson

Babbarra Women's Centre

Raylene Bonson is a talented textile artist, specialising in linocut technique. She has been working with Bábbarra Designs since 2012. Raylene was mentored by her late mother, Nancy Gununwanga, a senior textile artist at Bábbarra Designs and a founding member of Bábbarra Women’s Centre.

Raylene is well known for her designs depicting ancestral stories and ceremonial objects, in particular lorrkkon (hollow log for burial ceremony), kunmadj (dillybag) and mandjabu (conical fishtrap).

LANGUAGES: Ndjébbana (mother language), Kuninjku (father language)

ANCESTOR SPIRITS: Yawkyawk (female water spirit), Djaddi (Green monkey frog)

OUTSTATION: Barrihdjowkkeng

MOIETY: Yirridjdja

SUBSECTION: Ngarridjdjan

DATE OF BIRTH: 1974