RM Williams Australian Bush Learning Centre

Girrgee Art by Val McGrath Official Exhibition Opening: 7 January 2022 at 2pm – All Welcome! “Val is a Murri from Queensland.  She moved to Poona in December 2020 from Blackbutt where she lived for about 11 years after her and her husband retired.  Though her maternal grandmother came to Queensland at a very young age from the Flinders Ranges area and her father is Indian, Irish, Aboriginal from NSW area she was not bought up in that culture but in the Aboriginal culture of where she has lived. Both her parents were born in Queensland, and she has been bought up and lived and worked in many Queensland towns as well as in NSW and WA. Her main mentor is her husband’s skin brother from WA who has guided her and given her permission to paint their way. She owes much of her style and techniques to her respected Elder. Val started painting as a hobby at a young age as a way to express herself, mainly giving her art away to family and friends and now has been fortuned enough to see her items, whether it is a painting or something she has painted on being not only […]