Rhonda is one of the talented emerging painters at Mimili Maku Arts. Rhonda’s mother is from Inmampa in the Northern Territory, and Rhonda is proud to paint her mother’s country:

“There’s many salt lakes around my mothers country. They change colours with the seasons: pink, white, blue, everything! Sometimes the lakes are big, sometimes they are small, it always changes and there’s storylines around all of this. Long long time ago they were all connected by rivers, and my ancestors walked between them, always following the riverbeds. I paint those journeys as remember my old people with every painting I make.”

Rhonda lives and paints in Mimili Community. Mimili is home to 300 Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people who have been living in the area for millennia in harmony with nature and acting as custodians of the land and the Tjukurpa (creation stories). Mimili was formerly known as Everard Park, which was a cattle station that was returned to Aboriginal ownership through the 1981 APY Lands Act. Mimili Community was incorporated as an Aboriginal Community in 1975.