Name: Kelilah Ware
Nationality: Aboriginal
Tribe: Antikirinya/Kokatha/Wirangu/Narungga
Language: Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara
Born: Port Augusta SA 5700
I was born in Port Augusta 1999 but spent my growing up years in Ceduna on the west coast of South Australia.
My great Grandmother Millie Taylor (nee Lennon – Deceased) and mother (Kelly Taylor) are the inspiration behind all of my amazing paintings and stories that I create. My great grandmother is half Antikirinya and half Arrernte.
My art journey started while watching my mother and sister painting, so I thought I would give it a go. Today I love painting, it's very hard sometimes but I am very excited to learn. Inspired by my Mum and sister I want to paint part-time and continue being apart of our families business.
My mum has taught me how to create a painting using different designs, stories, techniques, styles and how to blend colours to create my own paintings that show my family and great grandmother's journey across country hunting and gathering traditional foods to survive off the land.
My style of dot painting is created using lines and waves to give my paintings an eye-catching effect that makes my artwork exquisite, culturally significant and breathtaking.