About the artist
Susan Nampitjin Peters
Vivid memories of country whilst travelling with her family around the vast lakes and river ways of the Lake Gregory, Billiluna and Balgo regions of Western Australia informs Susan Peters’ art work. Her lino-prints recall the ripening Garnti, bush potato, found and gathered in the sandy areas in the deserts where her family lived. Her work reveals ceremonies that are practiced to refresh the memories, stories and events of what her tribal people call Waljirri, time of creation.
Susan is Aboriginal women whose family is from Balgo Hills in the Kimberly, WA. She comes from a traditional painting family with little formal training, this blending of cultures is reflecting in her pictorials of bush plants, bush foods and wild life. Using graceful lines and rich colours she dramatically but meticulously paints on large canvases creating major works.
In 2008 she participated in Compact Prints 2008 at Umbrella Studio. Susan studied printmaking and painting at Barrier Reef TAFE and participated in the lino-printing workshop at Umbrella Studio. Susan is a founding member of Murris in ink, a group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island printmakers who live and work in the Townsville region. The group has exhibited work in the inaugural Cairns Indigenous Art Fair since 2009. In 2010 the group received funding to create a folio of work on paper for CAIF 2010. In 2010 Susan was selected to exhibition in a solo exhibition for the James Cook University library. Susan’s work has been included in group exhibitions at the Cultural Centre – Townsville, Perc Tucker and Pinnacles Regional Galleries and the Strand Ephemera.
