On August 8, the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory announced Yolŋu artist Gaypalani Waṉambi as the winner of its annual AUD 100,000 (USD 65,000) Telstra Art Award—Australia’s most prestigious accolade for First Nations creatives—which was presented at the 42nd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAAs) in Darwin. The Yirrkala-based artist Waṉambi received the top prize for her large-scale metalwork Burwu, blossom (2025). The intricate patterns delineate an Indigenous songline about Wuyal, a honey hunter and ancestor of the Marrakulu clan. In a video statement shown at the award ceremony, Waṉambi paid tribute to her late father. After that, I began to paint the honey from the freshwater Country.