With a rich history and culture dating back more than 50,000 years, Aboriginal people have fascinating stories to tell. 
 
Here you can read about those stories from some of the leading Indigenous artists and learn about about their life as an artist and away from the brush.
 
Click the artist’s picture to view a comprehensive biography from some of Australia’s leading Aboriginal artists across all major regions. This includes The Kimberley where artists specialise in using natural ochre pigments and paints, through to artists from the central and western Desert regions as well as Arnhem Land & others!

 

 

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Reg Sultan

Born in Alice Springs in 1955, Reggie first took up painting as a young fella attending the Alice Springs Convent School. Although he won numerous school art awards, Reggie learned his art by watching older…

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Regina Karadada

Regina lives in Kalumburu and is the daughter of Rosie Karadada, a prominent artist and artefact maker who is the sister-in-law of our most famous Wandjina artist, Lily Karadada. Regina’s father Louis, and his brother…

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Ronnie Tjampitjinpa

Ronnie was born approximately 1942 near Muyinnga, about 100 kilometres west of the Kintore ranges. His family travelled widely through the Pintupi lands, living a traditional nomadic life. He was initiated into manhood in the…

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Rosemary Petyarre

Rosemary was one of a group of Anmatyerre women at the forefront of the art movement in the Utopia area. She was amongst a small group of women who travelled to Indonesia to learn various…

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Roslyn Karadada

Roslyn Karadada (also spelt Karedada) was born in Derby 19/04/62 and now resides with her husband Lenny and children in Kalumburu with the other members of her very talented family. She is of Gnurre skin…

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Rusty Peters

Rusty Peters was born at Springvale Station in the East Kimberley, Western Australia in 1935. Rusty grew up on the station and became a stockman on Springvale, which features heavily  in the content of many…

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Sarrita King

Sarrita King was born in Adelaide, South Australia on the 5th March 1988. She is the younger sister to fellow artist, Tarisse King and daughter to the late highly regarded artist, William King Jungala (1966…

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Shirley Purdie

Winner of 2007 Blake Prize for Religious Art Shirley is undoubtedly one of the hardest working, most professional contemporary ochre artists and certainly one of the most talented. Born on Mabel Downs Station, she grew…

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Stan Brumby

Stan was born Halls Creek c. 1933. He worked as a stockman in the East Kimberley for most of his career, and lists many prominent stations Legune, Newry, Rosewood, Argyle, Auvergne, Bradshaw and Victoria River…

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Thomas Tjapaltjarri

Thomas and his family created international headlines when they walked out of the desert west of Lake Mackay into the small Kiwirrkura community, just inside the West Australian border west of Alice Springs in 1984. …

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Tommy Carroll

Tommy Carroll was born in 1956 at Doon Doon Station in the East Kimberley and worked as a stockman for many years. His knowledge of the country in which he worked is extensive and the…

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Walala Tjapaltjarri

Walala was born c. 1960 at Marua, east of Kiwirrkura in the Gibson Desert – he is of the Pintupi Tribe of the Central/Western Desert.  Walala is part of the famous “Lost Tribe” of 1984,…

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