George Williams, originally from Brewarrina, visited Walgett in 1979 to visit the family, and twenty years later calls Walgett home to himself, his five children and his eighteen grandchildren. A Barkindji man on his mother’s side, his art derives from his cultural heritage.

As he learned more and more about his history, his culture, and the story of his family, art became more important to him as a key way to connect with his family and Country.

“I feel really connected to my Country now since I’ve found out what it was all about. Last year, at Gundabooka I learned that my father and my mother shared the same country at this place. I knew this to be true when I was met by the emu, Dhinnawhan, my mother’s totem – I knew then that I was welcome on the Country”.

George works in a range of art forms through which he expresses his Barkindji, Ngemba culture, including the most contemporary of forms, photography. His nightscape photographs of the night sky take him out into the landscape at the quietest times, under the same stars of his mother’s and father’s country, and with the closest possible connection to himself.

“In the future, I would like to pursue my photography and my language, and find a way to incorporate both into my art”.