Meredith Curley from the APY Lands in South Australia, depicting the stories of her homelands using a modern colourful background with a textured style of dotting over the top of these colours.
Madeline Curley is a Pitjantjara woman from Fregon, in South Australia who has spent much of her life surrounded by a family of well-known artists. Her mother, Imitjala Curley, has built a solid following of art admirers and has been a sought after APY artist for many years. Madeline’s artworks depict the Seven Sisters Dreaming […]
Imitjala Curley was born near New Well, near Ernabella, SA in 1953. Having spent her early years living in this area, Imitjala’s family relocated to Fregon, SA in 1961 when a cattle station was established. It was during this time in Fregon that Imitjala began spending time at Kaltjiti Arts, which started as a craft […]
Kay Baker Tunkin is an established artist and talented basket weaver who was born at Palvwell (a birthing place near Ernabella) c.1950. Her father is Jimmy Baker, who is perhaps one of the better known artists of the APY lands. Kay has spent time living in Mimili, Fregon, Alice Springs as well as her home […]
Patricia Baker Tunkin has spent her life living in Kanpi and Fregon in South Australia. Her family is a well known family of Australian Indigenous Artists who have emerged from the APY region. She has been inspired to paint her works having spent time watching other members of her family as they painted the stories […]
Emma Stubbs lives in Alice Springs with her husband and two children. She was born in Port Augusta and relocated with her family to Amata (which is part of the APY Lands, in Northern South Australia) as a young girl. In Amata, Emma was exposed to the traditional stories and ways of the Yankyatjara people […]
Alison Munti Riley is an award winning artist from APY Lands in South Australia who depicts her stories using a wide variety of colour. Typically, Alison pants My Country and shows the land that the women traverse using a classic APY style of dot work. Hills, sand dunes, rock holes and travel lines are shown […]
Kukika Adamson is a senior artist from the APY Lands in South Australia. She has strong ties to her country and primairily paints the Mingkiri Dreaming, telling the story of the tiny marsupial and how the women had to escape from Wati Nyiru when they became scared of him watching them dance. They did this […]
Gail Napangarti is a talented artist from the APY lands in South Australia who paints stories associated with her Grandmothers Bush Onion Dreaming. Using a palette of bright reds, oranges, yellows and whites, Gail tells the story of the women as they search for Bush Onions. Her dotting technique is neat and precise as she […]
CLarise Tunkin was born in 1993 in Alice Springs hospital, and is a part of a large family of artists. Her mother, Teresa Baker a Pitjantjatjara woman from Kanpi, along with aunty Kani Tunkin and grandmother Kaye Baker (Daughter to Jimmy Baker) are all celebrated Tjungu Palya artists. Clarise rose to prominence in 2015 when […]
Andrea Adamson is a creative artist from the APY Lands in South Australia. She loves using a wide palette of colour when depicting the Seven Sisters story and has an uncanny ability to mix her paint colours to great effect. Using the classic APY style of dotting, Andrea applies her paint in a seemingly random […]
