Donna Brown is a Gumbaynggirr artist from the mid-north coast of New South Wales. She has exhibited nationally as a painter, printmaker, textile artist, illustrator and jeweller, and has several of her works held in collections including the National Gallery of Victoria and Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Brown has been a workshop facilitator working for Aboriginal art centres such as Mornington Island Art Centre, Queensland, facilitating metal and felt jewellery workshops.
In 2021 she was part of a group of artists in Bawrrungga (Bowraville) participating in the Bawrrungga Project with The Indigenous Jewellery Project and Australian Design Centre with Jaanymili Bawrrungga, with works featured in the ADC Store for Sydney Craft Week. Donna uses silver, copper, silk, enamel and emu feathers to create ethereal necklaces and chest pieces relating to her Gumbaynggirr heritage and local Dreaming. Emu tracks, astronomy and fresh water/salt water imagery are strongly represented in her work.
