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Published by CompNet Systems on October 26, 2023

When I found Jesus- My spiritual journey by Kathy Ramsey

I, Kathy Ramsay during my younger years I’ve struggle with many things in life. nothing worked out the way I wanted it to be. i had a pretty rough and tough times, but I was always humble in my ways.

I was an alcoholic drink 7 days a week in town Kununurra, walking around dirty. i felt no one loved me. My love life was very bad. I used to swear bad but not my parents and brothers and sisters. I used to love them so much.

Until one day in the year of 1008, I lost my eldest son and became more sad for me. I felt like doing something bad to myself. But my Mum was always there for me, where ever I make a move to go somewhere, she would ask me and have someone to watch me, my family members.

Then I buried my son in Bow River.

Then on 2017 without knowing I felt something come over me. Spiritually I was led to a Bible reading. Church called the assembly of God, until I got born again, got Baptised and gave my heart and life to Jesus Christ Forever.

Categories: WARMUN ART

Name: Kathy Ramsay

Language: English, Gija, Kimberley Kriol

Biography:

Kathy Ramsay is one of Warmun Art Centre's most prolific emerging artists carrying on the legacy of her artistic family. The daughter of artists Rammey and Mona Ramsay, and the granddaughter of the late Timmy Timms, Kathy only begun painting in 2013, yet has already been included in numerous group exhibitions and private collections across Australia and internationally. In 2015 Kathy was selected for Revealed, a biennial art event celebrating emerging Aboriginal artists in Western Australia. Kathy was born in Bow River.

Of her work Kathy says, "I only started painting in 2013. I like to join in and to be sharing a part of my Country. My mother and my grandfather always told us what this place means, what the names are, and all those Ngarranggarni (Dreaming) stories. Now, with all this painting, I'll be the one to tell them to my kids. I'm the mother of three sons, but I lost my oldest son in 2008. He was really strong in corroborree and culture, but my other sons, they carry it on too. They went to school in Warmun, and I worked in the childcare centre and cleaning and bits like that. Now I'm painting all the time. I just paint what my old people told me about our Country – because they are the ones who know the history of our Country, the Country we’re still connected to today. Our Country really knows us, and it owns us.”

In 2017, Kathy was a finalist in the John Fries Art Award, where she flew to Sydney to attend the opening night and celebrations. In her interview with the national broadcaster, the ABC, Kathy said "Everything is rolling in my mind, I can’t stop painting, I like to do it and bring it out through my heart, with the stories." Later on in 2018, Kathy was a finalist in the regional Hedland Art Award for her prominent painting depicting an in depth story about Juwulinji, often the subject in her paintings. Her ancestral Country is also known as Bow River, incorporating rich Ngarranggarni stories with recent histories of station life.

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