Kathy Ramsay Gija, b. 1965
31 1/2 x 23 5/8 in
Kathy Ramsey is one of Warmun Art Centre’s most acclaimed and renowned emerging artists. She started painting in 2013 and her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions across Australia and internationally. She was a finalist in the John Fries Award in 2017, and in the Port Hedland Art Award of the same year. This painting is of one of the stations that she lived on and says of the work.
"This is that Greenvale now. Mum told me that that's that Garrganny (water lily) place. They got a sharp rock there and all them pointy rocks. Them round circles, them digging holes from the old, old people. They went looking for them things now, bush potatoes."