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Betty Carrington

Betty Carrington (Born 1944) is active/lives in Australia.  Betty Carrington is known for Aboriginal art, landscape painting, historical events.

Betty Carrington was born on Texas Downs, but grew up with her family at the old Turkey Creek Post Office and Police Station (now the Warmun Art Center). Carrington’s father was a police tracker and her family lived there until the police station closed, when they moved back to Texas Downs.

Carrington worked on Texas as a housekeeper, and remembers the long hours of hard work. She worked at everything from chopping wood, clearing rocks from roads, cooking and scrubbing floors, to going out bush for bullock. Carrington has traveled extensively throughout Australia representing Kimberley and Gija people in dance and cultural festivals in cities including Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

She started painting in 1998 when Warmun Art Center was established by the leading members of the Warmun Community. Carrington uses a large range of subtle ocher colors, her delicate palette and style often describing strong and painful stories of historical events in the East Kim   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2588 characters.]  Artist bio

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