Brush: Women Painters brings together the work of eight trailblazing women: Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Birrmuyingathi Maali Netta Loogatha,Thundiyingathi Bijarrp May Moodoonuthi, Naomi Hobson, Rosella Namok, Samantha Hobson, Mavis Ngallametta, and Janet Koongotema, each of whom has carved a unique position within the landscape of Australian painting. Since the mid-1990s to mid-2000s, these artists have created works that speak to a profound cultural and spiritual knowledge of landscape, seasonal patterns, and sacred story places, while simultaneously presenting the realities of Indigenous community life.
Across many of the works in Brush, women continue to foreground ancestral narratives and cultural knowledge, carrying these stories across the surface of the canvas through the rhythm and movement of the brush.
– Shonae Hobson, Curator of Brush: Women Painters
Image:
Janet KOONGOTEMA
Wik-Mungkan
Moun.aw – Archer River story place 2024
synthetic polymer paint on linen
150.5 x 151.5cm Cairns Art Gallery Collection. Purchased Cairns Art Gallery, 2026
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