Venetta Yanawana Mangala, Australian, b. 1988

Venetta Yanawana lives and paints in Bidyadanga, the largest remote Aboriginal community in Western Australia, located 180km south of Broome. Venetta comes from a family of extremely talented and successful artists, including Lydia Balbal and Daniel Walbidi. She is currently working as an arts worker, stretching, priming, preparing canvases and cataloguing finished works online. She enjoys fishing, going on country and spending time with her children and family. Venetta paints Nyagumarta Warren, the country her old people used to live on.