Lindy Brodie Australian, Alyawarr, b. 1973

Lindy Nungarrayi Brodie is a Waramungu woman from Alroy Downs. Lindy began her career in Alice Springs at Jukurrpa Arts before moving to Tennant Creek to join Julalikari Arts in 2003. Finally, she joined Barkly Regional Arts in 2012, becoming a founding member of the Tartukula Artists.Lindy’s life is closely linked to the Barkly Region and her work speaks to her deep knowledge of her land and its history. Lindy’ s work often depicts human intervention on country, whether it be the history of her family livingon her Grandfather’s country during the 1940s, planes flyingfar above country or most notably, illustrations of the Ghan travelling through the Barkly region;a body of work for which she came to pre-eminence. Throughout her career Lindy has constantly returned to biblical imagery, reflecting her strong belief born from her childhood onstation, where religious instruction was strictly followed and the influence of her mentor, fellow Tartukula artist, Susannah Nakamarra Neslon, who taught Lindy to paint usingher own vividreligious imagery.With her signature use of cadmium orange, reflecting the colour of the earth, Lindy builds texture with layers and layers of paint, slowly adding details to reflect the unique features of the land around the Barkly; spinifex, ant pits and eucalypti with bright white trunks are scatter throughout her paintings, which bare strong resemblance to the landscape, despite the degree of abstraction which Lindy injects into her work. Human intervention constantly makes itself known with the presence of trains, planes, cars and people.