Bob Bilinyara
- Date of birth
- c. 1915
- Date of death
- 1975
- Ethnicity
- Wulaki/Djinang (Yolngu) people, Central Arnhem Land N.T.
- Notes
- Bob Bilinyara was a Yolngu man from central Arnhem Land. He was central to the group of artists working in Milingimbi in the 1950s. He later resided in Maningrida, where he played a leading role mentoring younger artists, and also at Nangalala. Bilinyara was among the group of Yolngu men enlisted as part of Donald Thompson’s Special Reconnaissance Unit, charged with protecting Australia’s northern coastline during the later stages of the Second World War. Bilinyara was also a respected surgeon; in this work, he gives figurative form to those involved in an initiation ceremony. Bilinyara died in 1975. Source: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/
