Kay Baker

Kay began painting in 2005 alongside her husband the late Jimmy Baker . Her dreamings or Tjukurrpa, depict the sites associated with an ancestral figure known as Marliu
Many of the caves and sacred rock holes in the region remain as important ceremony sites for the people that still live a semi traditional life in their homelands. Kay’s painting designs are associated with creation stories and contain important information helping to preserving these important elements of aboriginal culture.
Kay’s’s paintings are intuitive and instinctual; they show the landscape, flora and fauna.
This is the artists country around Kanpi in the Pitjantjatjara lands. It is the home and story for the woman (Minyma) creation ancestor called Marlilu. Marlilu travelled all around collecting wild foods and was sitting in her cave with her collecting bowl and digging stick with the wild foods she’s collected – like bush raisins and snake vines. Lots of wild foods. It is also home to the emu (Kalaya) and the country has a lot of creeks too. The Kalaya food is plentiful – they also eat the small stones they gather from the creek bed. This is important country with strong dreaming stories for my father and our family.