Yamaji Art

NHANAGARDI PEOPLE AMANGU, NAAGUJA, NHANDA, WAJARRI, BADIMAYA, WILUNYU, YAMAJI COUNTRY

Yamaji Art is an emerging Aboriginal Art Centre in Western Australia. The centre provides professional services for artists with a focus on sustaining cultural maintenance and arts practice in a variety of mediums including painting, textiles, weaving, print-making, design and performance.

Yamaji Art represents artists from more than five broad cultural groups from the region: Amangu, Nhanagardi, Naaguja, Badimaya, Wajarri, Wilunyu and as a contemporary urban based Art Centre, represents others currently residing in Geraldton or the region, including Nyoongar, Yinggarda and Ngaanyatjarra artists.

ARTISTS

Nicole Dickerson Joshua Gellatly Andrea Ugle-Green Charmaine Green Kyra Johnson Roni Kerley Lily-mae Kerley Barbara Merritt Jesse Pickett Margaret Whitehurst

JOSHUA GELLATLY

LIVES AND WORKS Yamaji Country | Geraldton LANGUAGE GROUP / PEOPLE Badimaya, Yamaji People

Joshua is a Badimaya man living on Yamaji Country. He mainly uses acrylic on canvas, with an overlaying line design created using a handmade thin paint brush in bold colours. “I like doing the line work”, he says. “Because they used to do it in the old days”. Joshua has won eight first prizes and one second prize in the Perenjori show and his works are exhibited at the Kalbarri and Margaret River Hospitals. “I use my artwork as a release and healing for my mental health. When I create it gives me a feeling of calmness”.

Joshua Gellatly

Spirit Man Traveling, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 128 x 60 cm

$1,920 REV22-202 Joshua Gellatly

Self Portrait: Josh, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 54 x 46 cm

$800 REV22-201

Joshua Gellatly Bird Secret Sacred/Magic

Acrylic on skateboard, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 79 x 21 x 3 cm

$450 REV22-204

Joshua Gellatly

Inside a Rainbow, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 63 x 63 cm

$800 REV22-203

NICOLE DICKERSON

BORN Yamaji Country | Geraldton LIVES AND WORKS Yamaji Country | Geraldton LANGUAGE GROUP / PEOPLE Naaguja, Wilunyu, Amangu, Ngarluma & Yamaji People

Born in Geraldton, Nicole is a Naaguja, Amangu, Yamaji woman, with connections to Ngarluma Country on her mother’s side. She has had an interest in being creative since she was young. As she grew up, she became more interested in painting. She gets a lot of her creativity from her dad and has also studied numerous art courses at TAFE. Nicole’s style is incredibly unique and she has a keen interest in textiles, lino and screen printing, and is represented by Yamaji Art.

Nicole Dickerson

Kangaroo Pelt Bag, 2021 Kangaroo pelt, synthetic sinew, wool 62 x 50 x 20 cm

$1,120 REV22-214

ANDREA UGLE-GREEN

BORN Port Hedland LIVES AND WORKS Yamaji Country | Geraldton LANGUAGE GROUP / PEOPLE Badimaya

Andrea is a young Badimaya woman from the Yamaji Region. She grew up in the northwest of Port Hedland, but moved back to the Yamaji country in 2009, the same year she joined Yamaji Art. In her time with Yamaji Art, Andrea has travelled to Carnarvon for governance training. Andrea hopes to develop more skills to become a high-profile artist. She is very family orientated and loves going out bush camping and fishing. Andrea is an amazing weaving artist and has been creating woven bracelets.

Andrea Ugle-Green

Seven Sisters, 2022 Raffia, emu feathers 120 x 110 x 2 cm

$950 REV22-205

CHARMAINE GREEN

BORN Yamaji Country | Mullewa LIVES AND WORKS Yamaji Country | Geraldton LANGUAGE GROUP / PEOPLE Wajarri/Badimaya, Yamaji People

Charmaine is a self-taught visual artist and published poet who writes and paints about her Country and culture. Charmaine has developed a contemporary style giving special importance to line work which she believes represents the style of work done by her ancestors in the Murchison and Midwest Region. Charmaine has a powerful sense of place linking her to Country and likes to reflect this in her artwork.

Charmaine Green

Kangaroo Pelt Bag, 2022 Kangaroo pelt, synthetic sinew, bush nuts, wool 50 x 40 x 4 cm

$950 REV22-206 Charmaine Green

Kangaroo Pelt Bag, 2021 Kangaroo pelt, synthetic sinew, bush nuts, wool 110 x 42 x 20 cm

$1,120 REV22-207

KYRA JOHNSON

BORN Yamaji Country | Geraldton LIVES AND WORKS Geradlton LANGUAGE GROUP / PEOPLE Badimaya, Yamaji & Mirriwoong

Kyra is a Yamaji Mirrawoong Nyarlu woman who spent most of her childhood in Kununurra. Her family then moved back to Geraldton and she started painting and hasn’t stopped since. “I find peace in my art, telling a story getting a message across, or just to relax my mind”, she says. “Painting is the best and most fun way of doing it”.

Kyra Johnson Kangaroo Pelt Drawstring

Bag, 2021 Kangaroo pelt, synthetic sinew, wool 60 x 30 x 20 cm

$950 REV22-213

RONI KERLEY

BORN Wyndham LIVES AND WORKS Geradlton LANGUAGE GROUP / PEOPLE Menang Ngadju, Noongar People

Roni is an emerging artist, having worked primarily in various government roles full time, as well as raising a family, she is only now finding the time to explore her arts passion since becoming immersed in the arts world. Roni favours 3D work such as weaving, installations, acrylic on canvas and public art, specifically street art. Roni draws on her love of her family and current issues impacting Aboriginal people in Australia as her inspiration for her work.

Roni Kerley

Kangaroo Pelt Bag, 2022 Kangaroo pelt, synthetic sinew, wool 50 x 40 x 3 cm

$1,120 REV22-210

Roni Kerley

Kangaroo Pelt Bag, 2021 Kangaroo pelt, synthetic sinew, wool 35 x 25 x 20 cm

$950 REV22-211

LILY-MAE KERLEY

BORN Yamaji Country | Geraldton LIVES AND WORKS Yamaji Country | Geraldton LANGUAGE GROUP / PEOPLE Noongar/Badimaya

Lily is a Menang Ngadju Noongar/Badimaya Yamaji woman born and raised in Geraldton. Lily’s work reflects her time with her family and being out on Country. As an emerging artist Lily’s preferred medium was initially silk, where she would use different dying techniques to dye silk scarves. She then began moving her designs onto lino which she would use to create prints for the scarves. Lily has recently taken up painting, which is her current practice. She uses the colours of Country, from ochres and earthy browns to the bright pinks of wildflowers, to the deep blues the ocean.

Lily-mae Kerley

Kangaroo Pelt Bag, 2021 Kangaroo pelt, synthetic sinew, wool 35 x 25 x 20 cm

$600 REV22-212

BARBARA MERRITT

BORN Yamaji Country | Carnavon LIVES AND WORKS Yamaji Country | Geraldton LANGUAGE GROUP / PEOPLE Badimaya, Yamaji

Barbara grew up in Mullewa in a close family of ten. She has fond memories of weekends hunting out bush together. Barbara had always wanted to be an artist, but being a mother of seven, her children came first. Now that her children are grown, Barbara has become an active artist in the Community. Barbara has been involved in NAIDOC celebrations at local schools as well as public art projects including murals at Lake Indoon and Geraldton PCYC. Always with more than one painting on the go, Barbara paints about knowledge and traditional stories passed down by her Elders, and the Country where she came from.

Barbara Merritt

Kangaroo Pelt Tote Bag, 2021 Kangaroo pelt, synthetic sinew, wool, feathers 50 x 39 x 20 cm

$950 REV22-209

MARGARET WHITEHURST

BORN Billabong Station LIVES AND WORKS Yamaji Country | Geraldton LANGUAGE GROUP / PEOPLE Wajarri, Yamaji

Margaret was born on Billabong Station in the Murchison and is a Wajarri woman. She is the second of seven children. Her childhood was spent swimming and fishing in the Murchison River and she went to school at Tardun Mission School. Her inspiration comes from the works of other Aboriginal artists and her Aunty Olive Boddington. She came to painting later in her life. Margaret is the mother of seven children herself and is an industrious and prolific artist. Her current works are reflections of Yamaji Country.

Margaret Whitehurst Kangaroo Pelt Backpack,

2021 Kangaroo pelt, synthetic sinew, wool 38 x 44 x 20 cm

$1,120 REV22-208

JESSE PICKETT

BORN Quairading LIVES AND WORKS Jambinu | Geraldton LANGUAGE GROUP / PEOPLE Noongar/Wadjarri

Jesse is a Noongar/Wadjarri man, who is now living on Yamaji Country. Jesse likes to paint using acrylic on canvas, but most recently has taken up photography. He photographs Country, the night sky and landscapes of his Country. “Dad taught me how to draw for as long as I can remember… started painting in Year 10". Both sides of my family paint and draw. Art is a way to express culture… it’s why I create”.

Jesse Pickett

Nightsky Man made, 2021 Digital print (unframed) 61 x 105 cm

$330 REV22-216

Jesse Pickett

Nightsky Freedom, 2021 Digital print (unframed) 61 x 90 cm

$310 REV22-215

Jesse Pickett

Nightsky Campfire, 2021 Digital print (unframed) 61 x 90 cm

$310 REV22-217