ARTISTS
Betty Chimney: Ngayuku Ngura (My Country)
02 Feb, 2023 - 25 Feb, 2023
To stare into the surface of a Betty Chimney painting, is to witness an adoration of country, direct from the artist’s heart. Delicately choreographed and altogether mesmeric, every moment captured in a Betty Chimney painting is an autobiographical ode to a life rescued by country. Born in Port Augusta SA in 1957, Chimney spent her childhood years in Coober Pedy before moving to Indulkana. The desert country of Indulkana Community is located the A?angu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in the remote north-west of South Australia; an area of the continent now globally famed for its artistic output. I was lucky because Alec Baker’s father came and picked up my mother and me. So we moved to Indulkana, when I was about 8 years old. Alec Baker is about 10 years older than me, so he was off working mostly. But my mother and I loved living in Indulkana. We lived in a big wiltja by the Indulkana creek.
To stare into the surface of a Betty Chimney painting, is to witness an adoration of country, direct from the artist’s heart. Delicately choreographed and altogether mesmeric, every moment captured in a Betty Chimney painting is an autobiographical ode to a life rescued by country. Born in Port Augusta SA in 1957, Chimney spent her childhood years in Coober Pedy before moving to Indulkana. The desert country of Indulkana Community is located the A?angu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in the remote north-west of South Australia; an area of the continent now globally famed for its artistic output. I was lucky because Alec Baker’s father came and picked up my mother and me. So we moved to Indulkana, when I was about 8 years old. Alec Baker is about 10 years older than me, so he was off working mostly. But my mother and I loved living in Indulkana. We lived in a big wiltja by the Indulkana creek.
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