Aulpunda Jean Barr Crombie

Artist

Aulpunda (Jean)’s art tracks her journey through country as she weaves the old stories with colours of the land in a unique spirit of discovery. She finds beauty in the gnarled tree, and love in the sand against bare feet, a love for country that brings colour and life to her paintings.

 For Aulpunda as a Wangkangurru/Yarluyandi woman, the big questions inspire her works are, 'who am I, and where do I belong?'  Those are the questions she explored in her artistic journey.

Through deep listening to the spirit of the land, a spirit that beats in her blood, Aulpunda comes to her art as learner and teacher, bearing the gifts of an ancient culture to share with family, children, and grandchildren, and those not yet born.