Nancy Nodea

Nancy Nodea grew up and worked most of her early life on Texas Downs Cattle station in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. On the station Nancy worked in a wide range of roles including checking bores, roadbuilding, milking the goats, making butter and general housework. Nancy began painting in 1994, guided by Rover Thomas and Queenie McKenzie. Nancy has explored contemporary stories that occurred in the East Kimberley over the past 200 years since white settlement. She has told the stories of the white cameleers and massacre sites not far from Warmun in her paintings; she is one of the strongest historical painters at Warmun but also paints her beloved Texas Downs Station country. Nancy and other artists who grew up on this station take an active role in taking young people out to country to hunt, fish and return to traditional ways of living with the land.