Ngayuku ngura – My Country, 2026

Rather than using the traditional technique of dot painting, ‘Wakka Wakka’, she says she has developed her own method using ‘brush strokes and swirling marks’ to build movement across her canvas.. Her brushwork predominantly reflects the forms of rock holes and the presence of birds and water on Country. Rebecca describes this style as her own idea and way of painng, inspired by what she has always loved seeing and remembering from Country. A strong influence in Rebecca’s work is the dreaming story passed down from her grandmother ‘about two birds drinking at the waterholes’ ‘One black and white, representing the two birds—the black crow and the white cockatoo.’ Her colour choices and imagery honour both her grandmother’s storytelling and the ongoing cultural knowledge shared through her.

Rebecca was born in Pukatja and raised in Amata. She started painting in 2022 alongside her Aunts Janie Kulyuru and Muna Kulyuru.

Rebecca is now an emerging Arst who paints her very own dreaming, as well as making jewelery with the nave seeds found on country.

Rebecca is a self-taught painter whose pracce centres on depicng waterholes, birds drinking at rock holes, and stories connected to Country and family dreaming.

Alongside painting, Rebecca also creates jewellery using native seeds collected on Country. Her pracce is grounded in cultural connuity, personal storytelling, and the sharing of inherited knowledge through contemporary arsc expression.

As an emerging First Nations artist, Rebecca is continuing to grow her practice by sharing the stories and knowledge passed down through her family and community. Her work is deeply connected to Country, culture, and the people she has learned from, while also expressing her own personal style and way of painting.