Casseyanne Woods
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About the Artist
Casseyanne Woods is a Pitjantjatjara artist born in 1996 at Mparntwe (Alice Springs), in the Northern Territory. She grew up with strong family and cultural connections to Kanpi and the APY Lands in South Australia, where she lived for many years with members of her extended family. Casseyanne now lives at Mutitjulu, near Uluru.
Casseyanne is the granddaughter of highly regarded senior Pitjantjatjara artist Maringka Baker and the daughter of artist Elaine Woods. She is the youngest of four sisters, together with Julie, Janice and Venita Woods, all of whom have continued their family's painting tradition. Through her grandmother and mother, Casseyanne grew up surrounded by painting, Tjukurpa and knowledge of Country, with the women of the family regularly painting together and sharing stories across generations. Her extended family also includes her great-uncle, the highly respected senior Pitjantjatjara artist and ngangkari Jimmy Baker.
This strong family lineage is central to Casseyanne's artistic practice. Maringka Baker is particularly known for paintings connected with Minyma Kutjara Tjukurpa, knowledge that has continued through Elaine and into the next generation of Woods women. Casseyanne learned both painting and important stories of Country from her grandmother and mother, developing her own contemporary interpretation of this inherited cultural knowledge.
The principal subject of Casseyanne's work is Minyma Kutjara Tjukurpa, the story of two ancestral women travelling through the Western and Central Desert. The women move between rockholes, camps and other significant places, with the older sister guiding the younger woman through Country and teaching her along the way. The story carries strong themes of family, belonging, guidance and connection to Country, and has been passed through generations of Casseyanne's family.
Casseyanne translates this ancestral journey into complex compositions of pathways, circular sites and densely worked areas of dotting. Strong bands of colour move between circular forms that evoke important places and water sources, while changing fields of pattern suggest the varied Country crossed by the travelling women. Rather than depicting the landscape from a single viewpoint, her paintings bring together different places and stages of the journey within one interconnected image.
Her use of colour gives her work a particularly contemporary energy. Deep reds, ochres and oranges can sit alongside greens, blues, pale turquoise and yellow, with darker areas providing contrast and structure. Long parallel lines often become prominent pathways through the work, while repeated circular forms establish a rhythm across the canvas. Although these visual elements connect her work with paintings by her mother, grandmother and sisters, Casseyanne has developed her own approach to organising Country through colour, line and pattern.
Family collaboration has also formed an important part of Casseyanne's practice. She has painted collaboratively with her sister Janice Woods and cousin Francine Kulitja, bringing different interpretations of their shared Minyma Kutjara Tjukurpa together within a single large composition. The Woods women have continued a tradition in which painting is both an individual creative practice and a means through which family knowledge, relationships and stories remain active across generations.
In 2020 Casseyanne was one of twelve Pitjantjatjara artists who contributed to the monumental collaborative work Tjukurpa Kaṉpinyatjara. Measuring five metres across, the painting brought together stories associated with Kanpi and artists from several generations of the Baker, Tunkin, Jimmy, Pollard and Woods families. Casseyanne painted alongside her mother Elaine and sisters Janice and Venita. The work was presented at the Art Gallery of South Australia as part of Tarnanthi 2021.
Her work has subsequently reached an international audience. In 2023 Casseyanne was included in INTERSTELLAR at Fondation Opale in Lens, Switzerland, an exhibition bringing approximately sixty works by Aboriginal and international contemporary artists into dialogue around relationships between the earth, sky and universe. Casseyanne exhibited alongside members of her own family as well as significant Australian and international artists.
Casseyanne's profile has continued to grow in recent years. In 2024 her painting Two Sisters was included in the Malka Aboriginal Art Prize exhibition, accompanied by her own account of the sisters' journey and their search for water across Country. That same year she was shortlisted for the Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize and participated in Generation Flex during the South Australian Living Artists Festival.
In 2026 Casseyanne achieved further recognition when her Minyma Kutjara (Two Women) was selected as a finalist in The Advertiser Contemporary Art Award, one of the major awards of the South Australian Living Artists Festival. She was one of only twelve finalists selected for the award. She was also shortlisted for the 2026 Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize, where 46 works were selected from 262 entries by South Australian contemporary artists.
Through her paintings Casseyanne continues a remarkable artistic lineage extending from her grandmother Maringka Baker through Elaine Woods and into a third generation of Pitjantjatjara women artists. While Minyma Kutjara remains a story shared across the family, Casseyanne brings to it a bold contemporary approach, using colour, repeated pattern and strongly defined pathways to create her own distinctive interpretation of the ancestral journey.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
• 2026 Generation Next II, Adelaide, SA
• 2026 The Advertiser Contemporary Art Award Finalist Exhibition, Keith Murdoch House, Adelaide, SA
• 2026 Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize, Gallery M, Adelaide, SA
• 2024 Generation Flex, South Australian Living Artists Festival, Adelaide, SA
• 2024 Malka Aboriginal Art Prize, Yarta Purtli, Port Augusta, SA
• 2023 INTERSTELLAR, Fondation Opale, Lens, Switzerland
• 2021 Tarnanthi: Tjungu Palya, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, collaborative Tjukurpa Kaṉpinyatjara
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
• 2026 Finalist, The Advertiser Contemporary Art Award, South Australian Living Artists Festival, Adelaide, SA
• 2026 Shortlisted, Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize, Adelaide, SA
• 2024 Shortlisted, Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize, Adelaide, SA
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