"This is the painting about my Warrarn (country). I grew up on this country with my families, old people and I was raised amongst my families, and we are living on our land. My old people would show me and my family of four: one brother and three sisters including myself, around country and showed us where the waterhole is. Our old people also taught us how to enter our country and speak to our old people to pay respect and we would then we would get look after us by them. They also taught us the ways of our culture and knowledge and passing it down to our future generation. “How did you feel while you were painting this artwork? “I felt good about this painting because it represents my identity, my people, my culture, and my country.”

“I was born at Port Hedland Hospital in the early sixties. I went to school at Strelley. From Strelley we moved to Warralong community and stayed there for a long time. I finished up school in Warralong. When there were holidays they took us camping to the river, Marlee River. Sometimes we used to go to the gorge as well. From there I went away to Wiluna. I started to work, picking oranges from the trees. And the emu skin, I made leather from it and made it into different colours, and then they would send it to Perth for people to make belts and wallets and things.

I was never really interested in painting before, I only started painting in 2010. They asked me at Warralong if I wanted to come and paint and I said “yeah, I’ll give it a try”. I used to come up and down to Hedland from Warralong and then moved here (to South Hedland) in 2010. Then I started painting with the Spinifex Hill Artists in 2011 when they came and asked if I wanted to come in. I enjoy painting here.”