User:Matthew i aldous/Audrey Brumby

Audrey Brumby was born in 1967. She comes from Pukatja, formally Ernabella, Central Australia, 400 km south of Alice Springs. Audrey is an Aboriginal artist. She speaks Pitjantjatjara Language. She has one daughter Aroha Brumby, father Rodney Brumby, brother Nathan Brumby and uncle Rama Sampson (a notable painter and tribal elder).

Audrey attended the Ernabella Primary School where she started to paint at the age of 14. Audrey has gone on to become a signficant and prolific painter of Aboriginal stories working with a variety of techniques a mediums (including batik, print media, childrens books, and paint on canvas). Audrey's themes are predominantly but not limited to the dreamings of walka, bush medicine leaf, bush fires and devils marble.

Audrey was one of the first aboriginal primary school instructors in Australia. Working as a teacher in the Ernabella primary school for 6 years. She was also one of the first aboriginal graduates to receive a Diploma in Education (Anangu Education). In her teaching career she instructed in language, Mathematics and Music to school Primary Children of the Ernabella Anangu School.

Career

 * 6 years, primary school teacher at Ernabella Anangu Primary School
 * Anangu Education Services, painting Walka Artwork and proof-reading Pitjantjatjara, educational language story books
 * Professional Artist

Exhibitions and collections

 * Tales from Ernabella, 1999
 * Further tales from Ernabella, 2001
 * University of SA, brookman hall building
 * Price coopers Waterhouse building, SA Australia,
 * South Australian Taxation Office.

Commissions

 * Aboriginal Resources and Management Support Unit
 * University of South Australia, Bush Medicine Leaf (2014)

Publications

 * What's Hiding (Nyaa Kumpini)
 * Kalaya's shoes (kalayaku puuta)