Waḻpa Winaka, which translates as “to burn and leave.” Rooted in cultural fire practices, the series explores regeneration through seasonal burning: clearing the land of toxins, inviting fresh shoots, and restoring balance. Waḻpa Winaka also speaks to the artist’s personal journey—an inner burn‑off that sheds unneeded burdens with old stories and clutter , making space for a fertile, forward‑moving life. Its layered fields and mapped firelines hold both the pragmatics of caring for Country and the ethics of renewal, carrying a teaching that moves between land, kin, and self.
208.5cm x 122cm
Acrylic on Linen.
Artwork comes stretched.
Robby Wirramanda is a Wergaia/Djadjawurrung /Wamba Wemba and Nyeri nyeri multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans wood carving, ceramics, sculpture in organic materials, and painting in acrylic on linen. Working with Country as both subject and collaborator, he shapes forms from reclaimed timbers and foraged materials—skins, bones, and teeth—alongside finely worked clay and luminous, layered linens. Across these mediums, his focus is constant: to carry knowledge, story, and lived experience into contemporary objects that speak with the textures of land and kin.
