Jill Jack

Jill Jack was born at Christmas Creek around 1955. Her parents had been part of the large desert migrations of the 1940’s and 1950’s north into the cattle station country.

Jill’s mother came from Japingka Waterhole in Walmajarri country, and had traveled north with her first, older husband. Her father came from Wirnpa in Wangkajunga country, and traveled via the Canning Stock Route to Balgo, before coming west to Christmas Creek.

Jill grew up with two brothers at Christmas Creek, where she worked for a time at the station homestead.
Her children (two daughters) who also have lived all their lives at Christmas Creek, now established as the Wankatjungka Community.

Jill began in 2003 at the Wankatjungka Arts Project organised by Japingka Gallery and paints elements of her ancestral homelands as well as stories from her and mother’s and father’s country.
She is a very capable artist with a lovely use of colour and her work is attracting much interest.