Rachael Morris Namitja

Rachael Morris Namitja was born in Darwin in 1963. Her mother was a Warrumunga woman and her father and stepfather were both Warlpiri men. Rachael grew up on Cattle Creek and Wave Hill cattle stations. She was a two-year old girl at the time of the Wave Hill Walk Off and was carried by her older sister, Helen, as they walked to Victoria River. After the Walk Off, her parents moved to Lajamanu where her mother taught in the school. They stayed for a while and then moved back to Kalkaringi Welfare Settlement where Rachael still lives. Rachael has been painting most of her adult life since she started with a Community Development Employment Program. Rachael has exhibited at Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair; World Indigenous Network Conference; as artist-in-residence at Songlines Gallery, Woodford Folk Festival; and at Megalo Printmaking Studio, Canberra, as part of Canberra’s 100 Year Anniversary in 2013. Rachael graduated ANKA’s Art Worker Extension Program (AWEP). She is a Director of Karungkarni Art and Culture Aboriginal Corporation.