Name: Tammy-Lee Atkinson
Language: Yorta Yorta
Biography:
Tammy-Lee Atkinson is a Yorta-Yorta artist. She is a proud Aboriginal woman who loves to learn and share personal and familial stories about her culture. Being able to express her own story through painting, drawing and photography, she attaches strong symbolic meaning to images that represent her traditional culture in contemporary art contexts. Tammy-Lee completed her Bachelor of Visual Arts at IKE at Deakin University in 2016 and she is currently enrolled in Certificate 3, Visual Arts, Centre for Koorie Education, GOTAFE, Shepparton. Since 2014, Tammy-Lee has worked as a tutor in Aboriginal art and culture at Kaiela Arts and has presented works in group shows in Shepparton, Melbourne and also at the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF).
River Spiders As a memory, years ago as a child, we were camping down the river Horsham way. Everything was different then. The animals were plentiful and the atmosphere was musty, humid and hot. I Read more…
Grubbing Country A place just out of Echuca we used to go grubbing with scar trees everywhere.
Sea (Moira) Storm (Banga gorkorra) As a child my father took my family out into the ocean on a boat on a very rough and windy, stormy day. There were many fins sticking out of Read more…