Anna Porter

Anna Porter was born at Milyatjarra near Warburton Mission the Gibson desert, Western Australia. Anna’s painting talks about her family travelling around tali country and going to the rockholes for water. “We didn’t go far away from rockholes, it was a long time ago when I was a little one. My family built a wiltja to live in but I stayed in the home at the Warburton Mission and went to school. When school was over we went our bush and collected bush tucker”. Anna met her husband, the late Mr Porter in Warburton and moved to Warakurna to live in his country when the Warakurna homeland was established in the mid 1970s. She remains in Warakurna with her children and grandchildren. Anna began to paint with Warakurna Artists in mid 2005.

Fremantle Arts Centre is situated at Walyalup on Whadjuk Nyoongar Boodjar. We acknowledge the Whadjuk people as the traditional owners and custodians of these lands and waterways and extend our respect to their Elders, past and present.

We offer our heartfelt gratitude to the Whadjuk community and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to care for Country and share their knowledge – this generosity and wisdom helps us to understand and navigate Country safely and respectfully.

Revealed is an initiative of the WA State Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries; and the Australian Government through the Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support program.

Top Image: Miriam Baadjo painting Nyinmi collaborative on Return to Country camp. Image courtesy Warlayirti Artists. Photography by Lucinda White

Bottom Image: Miriam Baadjo, Tossie Baadjo, Helicopter Tjungurrayi, Imelda Gugaman, Matthew West, Jane Gimme and Samuel Galova, Nyinmi Collaboration, 2021, acrylic on linen. Image courtesy Warlayirti Artists

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Wanarn Tjilpi and Pampa Painting Program, 2021

Wanarn Tjilpi and Pampa Painting Program, 2021