Paintings by Nada Rawlins (c1936- 2019) of her country around Kirriwirri in the Great Sandy Desert and the Percival Lakes area.
Welcome to this exhihibition of works by Nada Rawlins. Nada Rawlins began painting in the mid 1980s in Fitzroy Crossing and exhibited regularly from 1991 through to 2013. She was an active member of the artists group at Wangkatjungka community where she lived. Nada developed a style of painting her desert homelands in areas of saturated colour that represented her ancestral country and the dominating salt lakes and specific waterholes that were critical to her family’s survival.
Nada’s work is held in major collections including National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria and Art Gallery of Western Australia.
