Janice Stanley Featured New Works

Janice Stanley is an exciting and innovative 39-year-old artist from Ernabella Arts in the APY Lands.   She is the third generation of Stanley women to create artwork at Ernabella Arts. Her grandmother was founding artist and traditional healer Tjariya Stanley and her aunts are senior artists, Alison Milyika Carroll and Renita Stanley.  

Janice's paintings depict Pantu  (Salt Lakes ) near Atilla (Mt Connor). in the APY Lands.  This is a significant landmark in the Seven Sisters story. This story has been passed down to her by senior artist and aunt Renita Stanley. In this part of the story the sisters are walking and traveling south through this country. The Salt Lake that is a part of this arid county comes alive after rain. As the kapi (water) moves across the land it transforms the colour and light on the land and Janice is painting this change and movement.location for the Seven Sisters creation story. This story tells of seven sisters running across the country creating landforms in their wake. In her paintings Janice imagines viewing the salt lakes from above.  

With their luminous colours , unique imagery and painting finesse, Janice's paintings have achieved great success  in exhibitions in Ernabella Arts' representative galleries across Australia and internationally . 

Janice's works are in the collections of the Australian Embassy in Zagreb, the Janet Holmes a Court Collection an d the Collection of  Australian Parliament House, Canberra. 

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