Biography:

I was born on Thursday Island and my grandfather was a church minister at Old Site. I was going to get married but the man I was going to marry died. I have  six kids. Four boys and two girls but one of my girls died so now I only have one girl.
Schooltime I was a good artist and as I grew up I been doing art. I grew up with old ancestors – old grannie boys and old grannie girls at Old Site.
I been turn 9 years old at old site and we move to new site. As I been with my old ancestors they tell me story and draw on sand and charcoal for me
and they tell me, “grannie girl, one day you become artist and you go around the world making name for “yumi”, and I so l never forget that.

I like to play with the colours that blends and that’s how I get the colours from the brightness of the sun, like morning sun, midday sun and afternoon
sunset. I take it there now and put in on my linen and canvas and plus we got water here and when the sun rise, it make reflecƟ on on the saltwater at
sun beach. That’s where I get my inspiration on. We get sunrise everyday in front of beach.
My paintng is about land, about culture, ancestor stories from tribals that passing to generations just like I’m speaking now here in Lockhart. We one
big family. What I want is to pass inspiration on onto my next generation  in years to come, because we are all in that same circle and plus we got
different totems to go with thempla moonlight.
I also paint about my emotions. I paint about the bush fires and the waterholes. I paint the lagoons because we like to swim in the lagoons. I also
paint about meeting times and festival times and meeting places. We dress the kids all up and paint them all and we sit together and we yarn around
the fireplace under the moonlight.
I am happy when they buy my painting. They take my story with them as well and they tell to their family. I even tell them when they buy my painting
to be aware when they go camping, hunting and fishing, stay long way from creek and river. I tell them that when they go down the creek, they have to
check rocks to find if anything in there before they go in like crocodile or wild pig.

This one now my story.

Solo Exhibitions
• 2010: emerge ART SPACE, PERTH WA (Sold out)
• 2013: May, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne (Sold Out)
• 2013: October, “All About Art 2013, Depot Gallery Sydney, joint with Alcaston Gallery Melbourne Victoria
• 2014: January, “Puuya Kuntha – Strong Heart”, ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore
• 2014: June, gallery gabrielle pizzi, Fitzroy Victoria
• 2015: March, TANKS CAIRNS QLD, Sorority, duo exhibiƟon with Robbi Neal
Group ExhibiƟons
• 2009: May, “Four of Us”, Wooloongabba, Brisbane QLD
• 2009: May, Smith and Hall, Sydney NSW
• 2009: May, emerge ART SPACE, (Sold Out)
• 2009: June, “New Works from Lockhart River, emerge ART SPACE, Perth WA
• 2009: November, “Affordable/Collectable Lockhart River Show”, emerge ART SPACE, Perth WA
• 2010: April, “Yakai – We’re Coming”, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne Victoria (Sold Out)
• 2010: May, “Nyiikumu Kiikana – New Looking”, emerge ART SPACE, Perth WA

• 2010: August, Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF), Cairns QLD
2010: November, Booker-Lowe Gallery, Houston Texas, USA (Sold Out)
• 2010: December, “The Affordable/Collectable Lockhart River Show 2010”, emerge ART SPACE, Perth WA
• 2011: May, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne Victoria
• 2011: August, Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF), Cairns QLD (Sold Out)
• 2012: August, cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF), Directors Choice Exhibition, Cairns QLD
• 2012: October/November, Art Atrium, Sydney NSW
• 2012: November, Booker-Lowe Gallery, Houston Texas, USA
• 2012: December, “The Affordable/Collectable Lockhart River Show”, emerge ART SPACE, Perth WA
• 2013: Salon De Refuses, Darwin NT (Not the Telstra Awards)
• 2013: December, “Ngampula Kuunchi – We are family”, emerge ART SPACE, Perth WA
• 2014: July, Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF), Cairns QLD
• 2014: November/December, “Ngi’i-Chu’uchi Minthama’, A group exhibit on of exquisite miniatures by a select on of artists from the acclaimed
Indigenous art community of Lockhart River in far North Queensland, emerge ART SPACE, Perth WA
• 2014: Art Elysees, Arts d’Australie. Stephane Jacob, Paris France
• 2015: Art Paris Art fair, Arts d’Australie. Stephane Jacob, Paris, France
• 2015: VIBRATIONS: au coeur de l’art aborigene. Arts d’Australie. Stephane Jacob ACABAS, Paris, France
• 2015: 05 to 27 June – Lockhart River Group ExhibiƟon, “Punyas, Wungki and Malkari – Basket, Skirts and Shake-a-Leg” at Art
Atrium Gallery, Sydney NSW
• 2016: January, “Lockhart River Landscapes Exhibition” Paintings from Lockhart River, Far North Queensland, ART MOB,
Hobart Tasmania
• Cairns Indigenous Art fair – July 2016
• Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair – August 2016
• 2017: January, Lockhart River Group Exhibition, “Ngampula Aalkan Nyiiku Maanchima – Mepla: rise of a new era and
beginning”, ART MOB Gallery, Hobart Tasmania
• 2017: June, Lockhart River Group ExhibiƟon, “Cape Country”, Art Mob Aboriginal Fine Art Gallery, Hobart Tasmania
• 2017: July, Curated Exhibition and Market Stall, Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Cairns, QLD
• 2017: August, Group Exhibition, Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Northern Territory
• 2017: October 2017 to January 2018, Group ExhibiƟon, Booker Lowe Gallery, Houston Texas, USA, Irene Namok, Silas
Hobson and Corporation Manager Enoch Perazim to amended the exhibition opening in Houston on 20 October 2017
• 2018: January, Lockhart River Ladies only group exhibition, Art Mob Aboriginal Fine Art Gallery, Hobart Tasmania. Irene
Namok, Margery Accoom and Corporation Manager attended the exhibiƟon opening
• 2018: May – June, Group exhibition, Art Atrium Gallery, Sydney NSW
• 2018: May – June, Group exhibition, “Many rivers to cross”, Art Mob Aboriginal Fine Art Gallery, Hobart Tasmania
• 2018: June – October, a permanent collection exhibition at Foundation Burkhardt-Felder et Culture Musee de l’art
aboriegene australien “La grange”, Switzerland. Exhibition Titled “Islands in the Sea”, includes painƟngs by Rosella Namok,
Fiona Omeenyo, Patrick Butcher Jnr and Silas Hobson. Included in this exhibition are works from Tiwi Island, Elcho Island,
Bentinck and Mornington Island, Torres Strait, Daly River near Darwin and Pormpuraaw West Coast of Cape York. Irene
Namok, Silas Hobson and Corporation Manager Enoch Perazim attended the exhibition opening on 2 June 2018 in
Switzerland
• 2018: July, Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Cairns QLD
• 2018: August, Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin NT
• 2019: January, Group exhibition, “Which Way”, Art Mob Aboriginal Fine Art Gallery, Hobart Tasmania.
• 2019: July, Group exhibition, Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Cairns QLD
• 2019: August, Group exhibition, Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin NT
• 2019: August, Group Exhibition, “Overcoming Adversity”, Art Mob Aboriginal Fine Art Gallery, Hobart Tasmania
• 2020: March, group exhibition, Chengdu China, invitaƟon from Australian Consul General Chengdu and DFAAT – differed
due to Covid 19
• 2020: March, Group exhibition Titled “Puuya Kuntha – Strong Heart”, Nomads Hotel Conference Centre on Mulgrave Road
Cairns, QLD
• 2020: August – September 2020, Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Virtual Art Fair
• 2020: September-October, Sydney Contemporary Online through Cooee Art Gallery
• 2021: February-March, Group exhibition Titled “Our yarning place, our circle”, Motel Nomads New Art Gallery space on
Mulgrave Road, Cairns
• 2021: August, Group exhibition at Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Cairns ConvenƟon Centre
• 2021: August, Group exhibition at Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin ConvenƟon Centre
CollecƟons
• 2018: Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art at Foundation Burkhardt-Felder et Culture Musee de l’art aboriegene
australien “La grange”, Switzerland
• Lepley Collection W.A 2013