'One Red Blood: Gulpilil in the Landscape' will open in Naarm / Melbourne this week as a tribute to the late Yolŋu man David Gulpilil Ridjimiraril Dalaithngu, bringing together photography, weaving, film and family story in a more intimate portrait of the actor, dancer and storyteller.

The exhibition is led by his daughter, Phoebe Marson Gulpilil, while Naarm photographer and artist Eamon Wyss contributes the aerial salt lake works that helped shape the project.

Rather than building the show around Mr Gulpilil's public image on screen, the exhibition turns toward family, Country and the stories that continue after death.

Ms Marson said the exhibition carries both her father's legacy and a wider story about connection.

"His stories keep continuing all of these years after he's passed away," Ms Marson said.

"In a nutshell, the exhibition is a story about him and his legacy in life, but beyond life as well."

"It really is about connecting all of us through family, people, connections and the things that give us passion.

The project is the first major legacy work Ms Marson has led since her father's death.

She felt ready to take it on, even though her background is strategic rather than creative.

Ms Marson said she does not first think of her father as a public figure, but simply as her old man.

She explained what guiding the work meant to her.

"I feel ready for it," Ms Marson said.

"I just want to celebrate him... I want people to feel how I feel - inspired, connected and grounded."

Mr Wyss said the team chose not to centre the show on Mr Gulpilil's best-known film roles or the scale of his fame.

Instead, he said, the exhibition offers a closer view of the man, with five unmanipulated drone photographs taken over a Victorian salt lake on the day Gulpilil died in November 2021.

The exhibition also includes traditional pandanus weaving through Bula'Bula Arts in Ramingining, Arnhem Land, plus extracts from Journey Home, David Gulpilil and Damian Walshe-Howling's short film MESSiAH.

Mr Wyss described what visitors will find.

"We could have gone big and involved the famous films and actors, but what we've done is something more intimate," Mr Wyss said.

"It is a more intimate exhibition and an insight into David."

"There's also the story of how these images were taken the day he passed and how that has unfolded to this day."

Ms Marson said the weaving was essential because her father's story could not be separated from family, community and land.

She noted Mr Gulpilil would not have become the person he was without those ties, and that the family story was as important as the public one.

"It was important to have that family connection in there," Ms Marson said.

"He wouldn't have been who he was without them."

"That whole family story is just as important as his story."

The exhibition also reflects the way her father moved through the world, not as an us-and-them figure, but as someone who wanted people to walk together and make stories together.

Mr Wyss hopes visitors would leave with a deeper sense of Gulpilil and of what shared storytelling can offer.

Ms Marson returned to the feeling at the centre of the work, describing her family as "heart people" and saying the message is love.

"They [her family and people] have the most love you will ever experience," she said.

"That's also where Dad comes from, so maybe the message is love."

'One Red Blood: Gulpilil in the Landscape' runs from May 1 to June 13 at Midnight in Paris Gallery.

Entry is free, with opening hours from 1pm to 5.30pm on Wednesday and Thursday, and 11am to 5.30pm on Friday and Saturday.