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Evelyn was born c1940 at Woodgreen Station, a cattle property adjoining Utopia Station. She is an Anmatyerre woman and the bush yam (pencil yam) is her ‘dreaming’.

The bush yam has been an abundant source of food and water for the Anmatyerre people for untold generations. As her ‘dreaming’, it is Evelyn’s responsibility to honour it through song  and dance in ceremony, and now in art.

Evelyn is the mother of 6 children and is a shy, quiet woman who says little about her paintings. She currently lives in the small township of Wilora, 200 kilometres north of Alice Springs. Evelyn began painting in 1997 and has progressed rapidly. She now exclusively paints her ‘dreaming’, the bush yam, which is a slender twining plant with yellow pea flowers and edible tubers.

In 2005, Evelyn was the winner of the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award for her painting. She has had a number of solo exhibitions and her work is in many public and private collections.

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