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Artwork Description:
“This is Nyangumarta Warran, this is after the wet season, from the red desert sand to the salty plains of Walyarta. We went to that place when we flew over it - our trip there we saw artefacts in the area and we found new species of marsupials in that area. Lot of places. Old people used to live there too as we saw old artefacts and old grinding stones.”
-Venetta Yanawana
Category: Paintings (Oils & Acrylics)
Artwork Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
117h x 89w x 5d (cm)
Artist Bio:
Venetta Yanawana lives and paints in Bidyadanga, the largest remote Aboriginal community in
Western Australia, located 180km south of Broome.
Venetta comes from a family of extremely talented and successful artists, including Lydia Balbal
and Daniel Walbidi.
She is currently working as an arts worker, stretching, priming, preparing canvases and
cataloguing finished works online. She enjoys fishing, going on country and spending time with
her children and family.
Venetta paints Nyagumarta Warren, the country her old people used to live on.
Exhibitions
2026 Old People Lived Here – Lydia Balbal & Venetta Yanawana, Art Collective WA,
Perth, WA
2025 Radius 6.0, Courthouse Gallery, Porthedland, WA
2025 Jury Art Prize, Courthouse Gallery, Porthedland, WA
2024 Desert Meets the Seaside, Lawson Gallery, WA
2023 Revealed Exhibition, New & Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists, Fremantle Arts
Centre, Perth WA
2023 Shinju Matsuri Exhibition Art Exhibition, Broome WA
2023 Kimberley Art and Photographic Prize, Broome WA