Description

FREDA KEN BRADY
“Seven Sisters Dreaming”
Acrylic on linen.
Painted in 2019.
Provenance: Tjara Arts
Comes with Certificate of Authenticity.
Artwork is stretched and ready to hang.
117cm x 168cm

ARTIST BIO

Freda Ken Brady was born in 1961 and is from the remote and renowned artist community of Amata, South Australia. Amata is located within the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands (APY Lands) in the far north-west of South Australia.

Freda is the daughter of Paniny Mick and Mick Wikilyiri, who are both senior and highly regarded artists from Amata. 

Freda began her artistic career in 2002 creating batik. The artist now continues to paint her innate Dreaming within her community, to illustrate the sacred lands and natural formations within her Country.

Freda Ken Brady is most recognised for her depictions of ‘Seven Sisters Dreaming’ which is a story about family protecting and teaching one another other. It tells of the women being chased by an ancestral man who is in love with them. To escape, the sisters ascend into the sky as stars and the ancestral man remains, still chasing the love of the seven sisters today… 

Freda is atalented artist in her own right but is also recognised and highly regarded for her contribution in the collaborative work that she created along with her sisters Tjungkara Ken, Yaritji Young, Sandra Ken and Maringka Tunkin famously known as the “Ken Sisters”, that won the prestigious 2016 Art Gallery of NSW Wynne Prize.