Amanda Westley - Indigenous Artist

Amanda Westley is a Ngarrindjeri woman and artist, born in Victor Harbor, South Australia in 1985. Her totems are the whale, pelican and black swan. Growing up she experienced the best of both worlds living the farm life 12kms out of the coastal country town of Victor Harbor. Her father was a boat builder so the water and the ocean have always been a big part of her life. Amanda’s painting style is dot work and the bright colours from my coastal country hometown and the ocean are represented through her paintings. She has been painting from a very young age and her style is contemporary Aboriginal dot art, having always enjoyed painting and the calm that it brought. Her paintings represent country; for Aboriginal people land has a spiritual and cultural connection and is so important to identity and way of life. With her painting she has used a combination of pinks, yellows, blues, greens and oranges to represent how she sees her Ngarrindjeri country. Amanda’s family is one of the oldest Aboriginal families on the south coast; the land she calls home has been a part of her family for a very long time, and by creating these paintings she acknowledges the important

connection her family has with this land.

Recorded on Ngarrindjeri/ Ramindjeri Land

Links:

Amanda’s Instagram -

https://www.instagram.com/amandaindigenousartist/

Amanda at Artworx Gallery -

https://www.artworxgallery.com.au/artworx-artists/amanda-westley

Art Images Gallery -

https://artimagesgallery.com.au/collections/amanda-westley

Japingka Gallery

https://japingkaaboriginalart.com/articles/amanda-westley-the-painting-of-all-of-me/

Coe Gallery

https://coegallery.com/collections/amanda-westley

Creative Mob Project

https://www.instagram.com/creativemobproject/

“NAIDOC WEEK: Ngarrindjeri woman Amanda Westley reflects on her art being gifted to the pope” - ABC

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/adelaide-mornings/amanda-westley/106892860