&cDisp=About Nancy Walinyinawuy Guyula&

&tDisp=Nancy Walinyinawuy Guyula, born in 1940, is a Djambarrpuyungu woman from eastern Arnhem Land. Her father was a famous clan leader and maker of special ceremonial shark spears. She and several of her deceased Guyula sisters are known as some of the best fibre artists from their part of the world. Before the community of Gapuwiyak was established in the late 1960s she lived at Galiwin'ku on Elcho Island. She worked there at the mission in the 1950s and made baskets and mats to sell for the Rev. Harold Shepherdson and is featured in one of the photographs in the book Half a Century in Arnhem Land by Ella Shepherdson.

Walinyinawuy is acknowledged by many of the women in the community as being their teacher. Educating the younger generation is one of her ambitions. She was one of the key figures in an Australia Council (Indigenous Art Centres Program) Elders and Young Artists Project, initiated by Liz Skinner in 2007.

An interest in establishing Gapuwiyak as an art center has seen her participation in the 2006 Annual ANKAAA Arts Workers Conference at Charles Darwin University in Darwin. She is also a member of the organising committee of the newly formed Gapuwiyak Culture and Arts Corporation.&