The third generation of painters in her family, Khatija Possum is the granddaughter of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, a founding artist of the contemporary indigenous art movement in Australia.
The artist uses Aboriginal ancestry as influences in her work, portraying the landscape through concentric circles that represent human activity, small dots and circles standing in for food, large circles for water sources and ceremonial sites, and the ancestors as stripes and striations. The results are a complex, colourful and astonishing depiction of landscapes that look as though they have been embroidered and embellished. What a fabulous way to share stories and histories!
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