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SONJA LEE DARE aka Jonas

PAINTINGS - SCULPTURE - MURALS - LEADLIGHT - ILLUSTRATIONS

2005 - 2025

​I am a Barngarla woman on my maternal grandmother’s side with Kokatha and Wirangu on my maternal grandfather’s side plus Yankunytjatjara through my great grandmother on my grandfather’s side. I am a visual artist from South Australia. My interdisciplinary visual artworks – including digital media, photography, paintings, filmmaking, sculpture and leadlight – explore socio-cultural, environmental and political issues affecting Aboriginal people.

 

“I am of this Country, and I have a responsibility and an obligation to look after it. I do part of that through my art. My art is my tjukurrpa – my songlines, my culture and my law. My visiual artworks are documents of my land rights, they are the title deeds for my culture and land - past, present and future.”

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