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Borroloola's artists record histories that extend beyond the town into Gulf Country. Their work brings family knowledge, connections to Country and contemporary environmental concerns into major exhibitions and public collections.
🎨 Jack Green
Garrwa artist Jack Green has made paintings in Borroloola that tell the histories of Gulf Country and the changes experienced by its Aboriginal communities. His work is represented through Waralungku Arts, the Aboriginal-owned art and culture centre in town. The Australian War Memorial holds his Good to Bad, painted in Borroloola in 2013, which connects life on Country with wartime events and later changes. His paintings use narrative to place community experience inside a wider historical record. Their local connection is active artistic work, supported by an identifiable art centre and collection records.
🎨 Nancy Yukuwal McDinny
Nancy McDinny is a Garrwa and Yanyuwa artist whose work draws on stories passed down by her father and grandfather, as well as her own experience of Gulf Country. Museum exhibition records document her practice in Borroloola. Her paintings recount traditional life, encounters with outsiders and the effects of mining on land and communities. She was born on Fetrel Island, rather than in Borroloola itself. Her inclusion in the 2026 Biennale of Sydney brought those cultural histories to a major international exhibition, while her work remains grounded in family knowledge and connections to Country.
📰 Stewart Harris
Stewart Harris ran the media campaign for the Aboriginal land-rights claim at Borroloola during an extended period in the Northern Territory in the late 1970s. A journalist and honorary adviser to the Northern Land Council, he had long written about racial discrimination and land rights. Earlier work as a cook at a Territory mustering camp had exposed him to Aboriginal working and living conditions. His Borroloola involvement was direct campaign work, alongside the claimants and their organisations, rather than a claim to leadership of the community. It formed part of a career that joined reporting with public advocacy.
