BORN 1980 REGION Derby in North Western Australia LANGUAGE Wangkajunga Background The day Wangkajunga artist Lloyd Kwilla was born, a tribal leader, healer and great bushman from his Sandy Desert region had died. According to Wangkajunga law, Kwilla therefore inherited both the man’s bush name and the leadership responsibilities that came with…Read more »

STUDIES Self Taught Background With his paint-stained Dulux t-shirt and workman’s trousers people assume Chris Lees paints houses, and he doesn’t contradict them. Opal miner turned landscape painter breathes new life into the art market with his arresting landscapes. Christopher Lees reflects an authority in his brushstrokes which is evident in his monumental perspectives of…Read more »

BORN 1959 Portland, Oregon USA STUDIES Reed College, Portland, Oregon from 1977 to 1982, earning a degree in chemistry Background Peter Mars has been the leader of Chicago’s Pop Movement for the past 20 years. Combining avant-garde innovation with a deep Pop Art sensibility, Mars fuses and confuses the traditional distinctions between high culture and…Read more »

BORN 1948 Bribie Island Queensland, Australia. STUDIES 2002 Graduate Diploma Further Education in Arts USQ Toowoomba 1994 Bachelor Degree Visual Arts U.S.Q Toowoomba Background Lyne grew up on in what she describes as a time of immense freedom, living by the sea and running barefoot on the land. For the last twenty years she has…Read more »

STUDIES Self taught artist Background John McIntosh (tosh) has been one of Perth's top Architectural Illustrators spanning over 3 decades. The late eighties saw the opening of 'The Terrace Gallery' Mandurah, in which he was a partner, painting and exhibiting artist. During that time he also exhibited at Alexander Galleries, 'Perth College Exhibition', 'Bunbury Catholic…Read more »

BORN Australia STUDIES 2001 Maya 3.0 Animation Course, KvB Institute / Bond University, NSW 2000-01 3d Studio Max, Computer Graphics College , NSW 2000 Traditional Animation Course, Computer Graphics College, NSW 1997 Cinematography and Editing Units, Murdoch University, WA 1992-95 Bachelor of Arts Design (Hons), Curtin University, WA Background McKay’s…Read more »

BORN 1978 Sydney, Australia STUDIES Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery, University of New South Wales, 1997-2003 Portrait Painting at Charles H Cecil Studios, Florence, Italy, 2000 Part time student at Julian Ashton Art School, 1994-1997 SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2012 Pressure makes Diamonds, Aratong Gallery Australian High Commission Singapore 2012 As a matter of Fact, 52 Tins…Read more »

BORN circa 1948 REGION Yumari LANGUAGE Pintupi / Ngaatjatjarra Ester is the sister of of Tjawina Porter Nampitjinpa, She grew up ‘in the bush’ with her family, after her younger brother died, her family decided to move to the newly established government settlement of Papunya. Esther has returned to live in her country with family…Read more »

BORN 1958 REGION Haasts Bluff LANGUAGE Anmatyerre Alison Nampitjinpa Anderson is an Australian politician and artist. She has been a member of the Northern territory legislative assembly since 2005, representing the electorate of MacDonnell, and is a prominent indigenous activist and former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) Central Zone Commissioner. She was one of the…Read more »

BORN circa 1935 REGION Yamari Western Desert LANGUAGE Pintupi Background “Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa grabbed me tightly by the arm and pulled me closer to her, for an elderly woman her upper body strength is extraordinary. I was troubled by the expression on her face, she raised her eyebrow and one fierce bright eye…Read more »