Murray Belford Murray is a Pitta-Pitta man from the Channel Country surrounding the Boulia district in South West Queensland. He paints traditional and contemporary style artworks from stories that have been passed onto him by…
Cheryl Moodai Robinson is a maternal descendant of the Kooma (Gowamu) clan of SW Queensland. She is a multi-media artist, focusing on sculptural pieces and has worked in many disciplines. Her person artworks are created…
I was born inKempseyHospital to Lewis and Joyce Knox from North St, Kempsey. I was the eldest of five children and my family lived in Sydney, Walcha and then my family came back to Kempsey.…
CLEM RITCHIE I’m from the Dunghutti tribe and I’ve lived in Kempsey all of my life, growing up at Burnt Bridge with my Nan and Aunty. My Father was famous boxer known as Ritchie Sands…
Nyree (Ngari) Reynolds was born in 1948 in Wollongong NSW. Nyree an Aboriginal woman of the Gamilaraay Nation is an Artist/Tutor based in Central West NSW. She has facilitated workshops for many years for disabled…
Craig Smith is a Dunghutti man born 1991. Craig paints the story of the three tribes that live by the three main rivers on the mid north coast, the Manning, Hastings & Macleay Rivers and…
Maningrida Arts & Culture (MAC), formally established in 1973, is one of the oldest Aboriginal Arts Centre in Australia. Based in Maningrida community, MAC is currently servicing more than 700 artists from Maningrida and its…
Rex was born in Sydney 1968 and belongs to the Gamilaraay language group. Rex was adopted by a white family at three months of age and grew up at Nyngan, a farming community in Central…
Nudge was born in Guyra in 1958. Â He belongs to the Biripi/Ngarabal language group. Nudge’s work has a strong connection to water. ‘ I try to put movement into my paintings, especially the water ones……
I am Gina Simon Varagnolo.  I live in Taree. Art is my thinking time about my life experiences.  I grew up around Maitland and Newcastle.  Me, my partner and 3 sons moved to Taree in 2001. I started doing…
Alison is a proud Gumbaynggirr woman born in Sydney in 1968. Alison is a spokesperson for cultural heritage of Australian indigenous persons and has been involved in education and communication of culture from dance, sculpture…
Mabel Ritchie is a Dunghutti woman who was born in Newcastle. Mabel’s family moved back to her father’s home land, Burnt Bridge when she was very young where she grew up with her brothers and…
DOB:  1974 I live in Bellbrook 52 kms west of Kempsey in the Macleay Valley. My tribe is Thungutti. I have lived in Bellbrook all my life. I like Aboriginal art because of the stories…
I come from Toomelah Mission, a small Aboriginal community on the dry plains near the north western border of NSW. Toomelah is the aboriginal word for people who move from place to place and it…
I am a descendant of the Gumbaynggirr Tribe (Nambucca Heads) Maria says of her work ‘I began painting some 5 years or more when I was attending the Muurrbay language centre. I work with very…