Region:Sandy Bore

Skin Name: Perrule

Language: Eastern Arrernte

Biography

I grew up in Santa Teresa and went to school there. Mrs Kathleen Wallace and Rachel Palmer were our art teachers when I was in Secondary school. I moved to Ti Tree for four years after I left school . I used to watch the women doing dot painting and that's when I started to paint. When I left Ti Tree I went to live with my sister at Garden Point on the Tiwi Islands north of Darwin. My brother-in-law worked in the pottery studio and my sister at Munupi Arts and Crafts. I worked at Munupi for two years and enrolled in a Certificate course in art and craft run by Batchelor College. I learned a lot from doing this course like screen printing, lino printing, pottery and other techniques. Some of my paintings have been reproduced as cards and I had a contract with Blue Moon Cards for five years. Now I live in Alice Springs and work at Irrkerlantye Arts.

Exhibitions

• 1994 Australian Heritage Commission Art Awards, Canberra
• 1995 Selection of Best, Nemarluk Exhbition, DPAC Gallery, Darwin
• 1995 Exhbition at Raintree Gallery Darwin
• 1999 Telstra Art Award, Darwin
• Sept 2004 - 07 Alice Springs Festival , Alice Springs
• Sept 2005 - 06 Desert Mob Exhbiiton, Alice Springs
• July 2006 Boomalli Gallery, Sydney
• March 2007 Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra