Kathleen Wallace was born at a site called Uyetye, some time around 1948. Her family lived on their traditional land, keeping away as much as possible from the settlements and stations that were operating across their former homelands. Early visits to Santa Teresa Mission began as her family needed to supplement their food supplies, and so came in for rations in the 1960’s. When Kathleen was a teenager, her parents encouraged her to stay with the nuns in the girl’s dormitory. From then on she lived at the mission, attending the school taught by the nuns and began working life. Kathleen’s painting career with modern art materials began at the mission when a visiting landscape artist encouraged the young ones watching him, to have a go. These early lessons were then supplemented by the nuns, who taught the use of various paint mediums to the interested young girls and women on the mission. When Santa Teresa mission became Ltyentye Apurte Community and the arts centre was built, Keringke Arts was named after Kathleen’s and her mother’s dreaming site: Keringke rockhole.  Full Bio » »