Welcome to Iwantja Arts

“I saw the missionaries at Ernabella; they were my first white people. They were teaching us tji tji’s (children) at the school – we were all naked, and living in the...

“I like fixing cars, I taught myself – how to drive them and fix them. I’m a bush mechanic! Even if the Art Centre Toyota gets broken, I can fix him up, I know how to...

“When I was little I didn’t go to school, but then my parents and grandparents taught me bush skills and about the laws. I was growing up near Lambina Station, and my...

Born in the bush, Whiskey grew up at the Ernabella mission. As a young man he worked as a desert stockman alongside life-long friends and painting colleagues Alec...

“I was born in the bush near Mimili and grew up at Indulkana, back then there were little tin sheds for houses, and I was living with my grandmother Angkuna Baker. I...

“My name is Rosanne, and I like to make paintings at Iwantja Arts. My favourite singers are Beyonce, Rihanna and Jessica Mauboy. I listen to music all the time, it...