Katie Cox / Eagle Hawk and Crow

A Gija artist from a major Warmun painting family with a bold, expressive style. Her wider practice often brings a playful edge to cultural subjects including Dingo Dreaming and Eagle and Crane. She returned to the community in 1993 and was employed as an aged care worker at Walumba Hostel, followed by many years at Ngalangangpum School in Warmun and as a long-standing member of the Warmun Council. She was born in 1958 at Texas Downs Station (Ngarrgaroon), near what is now Warmun Community, and was sent at a young age to boarding school at Beagle Bay Mission.

In her twenties, she relocated to Warmun and started teaching reading and writing to local children. Her aunts, esteemed Warmun artists Lena Nyadbi and Goody Barrett, were formative influences and mentors. Her brother Churchill Cann and sister Nancy Nodea, both internationally recognised artists, were also significant influences.