Angelina George

Angelina grew up at Roper River. Her love for painting began while still at school, but it wasn’t until the late sixties that she first started to paint seriously. By the eighties she had risen to prominence and was painting for a well known Australian gallery.
Although encouraged to create and paint during her formative years at school, Angelina received no formal training from traditional sources. She is thus considered a self-taught artist.
As a child Angelina developed a strong respect for the traditional and Christian religious learnings that were to inscribe her young life. In adulthood she adheres to these learnings and while painting follows strict cultural restrictions passed onto her by Elders. Her work today is closely scrutinised for cultural correctness by an old uncle – a known and respected keeper of culture,
These prerequisites to artistic life have informed inherently Angelina’s creative self, Unlike many of her contemporaries (often also following prohibitions and frequently limiting painting to only authorised stories), Angelina has moved her work wholly into the realm of innovation and imagination, From this unique stance of inventing while embracing culture flows Angelina’s richly coloured flower-scapes. Her love of country, of the intense beauty of nature is deeply embedded in these vibrant scapes while all the while not betraying specific sites.
It is this deep understanding and respect for country, the timeless inspiration invoked by such understandings, and the spectacle of vitality that arrives on the canvas as a consequence which has attracted an international and equally inspired audience.