Susie Prince, Untitled, 61x30cm

• Aboriginal Artist - Susie Prince
• Community - Umoona
• Aboriginal Art Centre - Umoona Community Art Centre
• Catalogue number - 01-26
• Materials - Professional artist acrylic on Belgian linen
• Size(cm) - H61 W30 D2
• Postage variants - Artwork posted un-stretched and rolled for safe shipping
• Orientation - Painted from all sides and OK to hang as wished

Susie Prince joined Umoona Community Art Centre (UCAC) in January 2025. Born in Oonadatta and raised in Indulkana APY Lands, Prince works across painting, drawing, tjanpi (weaving) and inma (performance). Her abstract line paintings refer to women's ceremonial dances specifically the female body animated by the land. Her visceral brush strokes embody the aesthetic motion shared in the acts of painting, dance, and the movement of wind on sand dunes. The paintings represent these multiple acts as a single image of Country reasserting the Indigenous concept of Country and Anangu (people) being one in the same thing.

Umoona Community Art Centre is Indigenous owned and governed, based in Umoona community at Coober Pedy in the north of South Australia. It was established in 2020 alongside the art centres of the neighbouring Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, with the aim of building sustainable employment pathways for artists. The artists wanted a permanent centre they owned and operated themselves, and opened their purpose-built studio in Umoona in early 2024. The community is diverse. Artists from different language groups across the central desert work alongside people who have always called Umoona and Coober Pedy home, more than thirty of them, aged from sixteen to seventy. They work in acrylic on linen, punu and carving, tjanpi weaving and ceramics, in a wide range of styles, with strong colour and energetic mark making.