Bulgul is a small indigenous community consisting of 10 to 15 simple houses spread along the coast north of the Daly River mouth. The residents still engage in traditional hunting and gathering activities each day including fishing, crabbing and gathering of native plants. Aside from these houses there is no additional infrastructure. Bulgul is about three hours drive from Darwin and about one & a half hours from the nearest settlement, Batchelor.

Helen Tyalmuty McCarthy held her first exhibition in 2006, the very next year winning the People’s Choice Award at the 24th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards. McCarthy was a Telstra finalist again in 2008, and has gone on to extensively exhibit in Australia and overseas. She has built a reputation as one of Australia’s most exciting and sought after Indigenous artists.