Summer Sanders
Language group: Barkindji / Ngiyaampaa
Country: Menindee, Western NSW.
Skin group: Eagle Hawk.
Summer paints her country on glass using bushtucker, the Darling River and waterholes as her inspiration.
Summer also paints Ngatji the Rainbow Serpent and how he created the landscape. weaving in and out of waterholes and along courseways.
Summer makes frequent visits back to Menindee to establish links with her community and friends and strengthen her ties to family and country.
Robert Paints his country, inspired by bushtucker (bidigin the river Mussels) and Narbang (Fish nets). Robert also paints message stick carvings used as rights of passage through country. Roberts work is highly sought after and is represented in the National art glass collection. He has exhibited extensively throughout Australia and overseas including the Sofa Exhibition, Chicago.
