About the Artist
Darumbal emerging artist Barringunn Bulic has been going out of her comfort zone in trying new styles, techniques and mediums and figuring out who Barringunn is. I currently create works in painting but decided to go forth in experimenting in mixed media by doing embroidery. I use a lot of oils and gouache; my styles change from realism to surrealism, but I am yet to discover more styles that best suit me. I had prior education at Latrobe College of Art and design and was taught by amazing artists with over 20 years of experience in the art fields. Although I'm still trying to make my way into the art world my biggest art achievements are getting my diploma of visual arts at LCAD, participation in the energy exhibition in 2020 and designing the Naidoc week shirts at my high school for 2018 and 2019. I want to achieve my own style of art with the essence and collaboration of my Darumbal culture but before I can do that I need to go back to Country and learn from my Elders in the meantime I want to further my skills and techniques and explore all different types of mediums and styles to fit perfectly with my culture so I can create more beautiful artworks in the near future and make my ancestors proud.

About the Artwork
My art doesn’t have a distinct meaning, it changes like seasons, with my art I like to experiment, go out of my comfort zone to create a piece and see what else I can add or what I can fix. I do come up with distinct ideas in my head and start off with that idea, but I then change my mind throughout the making process. This piece shows the steps of my thoughts and feelings in a way, what was I feeling in that moment of that painting, was I sad, happy, confused. The start of this work was to create 4 vintage style women with bright bold colours and crazy patterns in the hair, I was starting off with that. Until I came across a part that didn’t make me happy, so I decided to use scrap paper and paint a rabbit, the rabbit represents my insecurity. It represents the fear of me not being good enough, in most of my works the stitching represents bondage and stability. The fox above represents my confidence as it’s on the top being secured by embroidery, it represents the fight between the rabbit (insecurity) and the fox (confidence). The women represent my mood, the red for happiness, pink for anxiety and blue for depression. The embroidered patterns in the hair are connections to each other like neurons in the brain.