Featured Artists
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Natalie Clark (Jackson) was born in the coastal town of Undalup (Busselton), located in the South West of Western Australia. She is from the Wardandi and Bibbulman Noongar Nation on her mother’s side, and the Ballardong Noongar Nation on her father’s side.
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Noongar artist Yondee Shane Hansen was born in the south-west of Western Australia in 1964, at Dumbleyung, 270 km south of Perth.
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Andrew Highfold Tjupurrula was born in 1958 and comes from Crystal Brook in South Australia. He is part of the Stolen Generations and began his traditional family reconnection when he was 22 years old.
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Belinda is a rising star artist with strong artistic family connections from the Anmatyerre language group, Utopia near Alice Springs in Central Australia. Her family include grandmother, renowned artist Polly Ngale.
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Carolanne is a quiet achiever. She's very driven, but she puts her head down and she gets on with things. She also paints the story of Marililu, and she does it in a very visceral, very painterly way.
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Born: 1975. Language Group: Anmatyerre and Alyawarre. Country: Atnwengerrp, Utopia Region, North East of Alice Springs, Northern Territory
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Debbie Napaljarri Brown was born in Nyirripi, a remote Aboriginal community 400 km north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. She grew up in Nyirrpi, and did most of her schooling there, although she spent several years boarding at Yirrara College in Alice Springs. When she returned to Nyirripi she worked at the store as well as helping to care for old people. In 2010 Debbie moved to Yuendumu, 160 km east of Nyirripi, with her husband and son Jarvis to be closer to her husband’s family. She works for the Women’s Centre, cooking lunches for the kids at school. Debbie has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu, since 2006. Her Grandmother, Margaret Napangardi Brown, also an artist with the art centre, taught her to paint. Her Grandfather is the renowned Pintupi artist Pegleg Tjampitjinpa who was born c.1920 and grew up in the vicinity of Wilkinkarra, living a traditional life. Debbie would watch her grandmother and grandfather paint and listen to her Grandmother’s Jukurrpa or Dreaming stories. In her paintings, Debbie paints her father’s Jukurrpa, Dreamings which relate directly to her land, its features, plants and animals. These stories were passed down to her by her Grandmother and her mother and their parents before them for millennia. -
Debra McDonald Nangala, was born at Papunya Camp. She is the granddaughter of the late Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi (c.1920-1987), who was a Pintupi man from Lake MacDonald in the Gibson Desert, Central Australia.
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Dora began painting in 2003. She paints the story of the Bush Plum Dreaming and her mother’s story as does her sister, Betty Mpetyane – a well-known and respected artist from the Utopia region.
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Jeannie Mills Pwerle, born in 1965, from the Alyawarr language group, holds a prominent place in the art scene of Utopia in Central Australia. Her ancestral ties link her to the Atwengerrp and Irrwelty lands within the Utopia Region.
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Born: c. 1964, Language Group: Alyawarre, Country: Arawerre (Soapy Bore), Utopia Region, North East of Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
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“Koomal” is the traditional name of Wadandi man Josh Whiteland. Koomal is the local word for brushtail possum and the totem chosen for him by his Elders. Josh was born in Busselton, WA and grew up surrounded by family, culture and connection to country.
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Kim is a proud Balardong (Wheatbelt), Whadjuk (Perth) and Banjima (Pilbara) woman, who lives and creates her work on Wadandi Country. Inspired by her accomplished artist father, John Sara, she follows in his artistic footsteps.
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Anmatyerre artist Michelle Possum Nungurrayi was born in 1970 at Mt Allan, a station community about 250 kms to the north west of Alice Springs. Michelle comes from a well-established artistic family.
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Rosella Namok is one of Australia’s most successful contemporary Aboriginal artists. Born in 1979, Rosella Namok is an Ungkum speaker who grew up in Lockhart River community.
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Sharon Hume is a proud Noongar woman, born on Wilmen Country in the South West. Though life took her across different paths, she has spent most of her time on Wadandi Country in Bunbury and now calls Busselton home.
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Sonya Edney is a largely self-taught Yingarrda (Ingarrda) artist born in 1974 in Carnarvon in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia.
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Yvonne Bell is a talented Minang Noongar and Ngadju artist hailing from Yarramoup (Jerramugup) in the picturesque southern region of Western Australia. She has a deep connection with Banjelungup (Bremer Bay) and has since made her home in Boorloo (Perth).
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