“I paint these stories about gathering and hunting in saltwater Country; String rays, turtles, fish. Bidyadanga that’s my home, i feel free camping and going out bush, swimming, gathering oysters, mud-worms and hermit crabs.”
– Colleen Jadai
Coleen paints salt water cCuntry and dream time stories, all the stories that the old people taught her growing up in the Kimberley community of Bidyadanga.
Name: Colleen Jadai
Community: Bidyadanga
Biography:
Coleen was born up North in Broom and grew up in la Grange mission, which later became the community now know as Bidyadanga on Karajarri Country. She paints salt water country and dream time stories, all the old stories that the old people taught her.
"I paint these stories about gathering and hunting in saltwater Country; String rays, turtles, fish. Bidyadanga that's my home, i feel free camping and going out bush, swimming, gathering oysters, mud-worms and hermit crabs. My grandmother was a Karajarri woman she taught me and other old people too. In Bidyadanga the old people would sing out to the dolphins and the dolphins would bring the fish in for everyone."
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