Leah Brady
Bio
LEAH BRADY
Born: 1962
Language: Pitjantjatjara
Community: Amata : SA
Leah Brady was born in Pukatja in 1962, she moved to Amata Community where she went to school and became bilingual in Pitjantjatjara and English. She was also married here and raised her kids in Amata Community. Leah's family has been involved in cultural tourism initiatives in the APY Lands, she comes from a line of important regional leaders - her mother being a founding Director of NPY Women's Council. Leah is committed to her painting practice and holds a leadership role in the APY Adelaide studio, she has been a driver for this initiative, lobbing government for several years in order to progress her plans.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Sydney Contemporary, APY Art Centre Collective, September
2022 APY Gallery, Sydney Uwankaraku Inmaku Pakala- Everybody Dance, May
2022 APY Gallery Melbourne Art Fair, February
2021 APY Gallery, Adelaide Ngayulu Kulinu Ngayuku Kami-Ku Inma (I hear my Grandmothers song), June
2021 APY Gallery, Adelaide Uwankara - All of Us, March
2020 Musee des Beaux-Arts (Museum of Fine Arts), Brittany France Kulata Tjuta, October
2020 APY Gallery, Adelaide Watarkurinytja Wiya - Don’t Forget, July
2019 APY Gallery, Adelaide Nganampa Waltja Tjungu, December
2019 APY Gallery, Adelaide Tjintu Kuwaritja / A New Day, July
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Australia France Foundation
AWARDS
2021 Finalist, Wynne Prize
2020 Finalist, Telstra NATSIAA
2020 Finalist, Wynne Prize
Leah Brady
Wanampi Tjukurpa / Piltati
2023
acrylic on linen
196.00 x 196.00 cm
inscribed verso: artist's name and APY Adelaide Studio cat. 51-23AS$14,500.00
Leah Brady
Wanampi Tjukurpa / Piltati
2023
acrylic on linen
167.00 x 200.00 cm
inscribed verso: artist's name and APY Adelaide Studio cat. 21-23AS$12,000.00
Leah Brady
Wanampi Tjukurpa / Piltati
2022
acrylic on linen
300.00 x 200.00 cm
inscribed verso: artist's name and APY Studio cat. 532-22AS
Leah Brady
Wanampi Tjukurpa / Piltati
2023
acrylic on linen
200.00 x 200.00 cm
inscribed verso: artist's name and APY Adelaide Studio cat. 380-23Sold
Leah Brady
Two Snake Brothers and their wives
2021
acrylic on Belgian linen
243.00 x 197.50 cm
APY Art Centre cat. 547-21AS
Leah Brady
Wanampi Tjukurpa / Piltati
2022
acrylic on linen
199.00 x 200.00 cm
inscribed verso: artist's name APY Studio cat. 654-22ASSold
Leah Brady
Piltati tjukurpa
2021
acrylic on linen
200.00 x 200.00 cm
APY Studio cat. 20-21AS Leah was a Finalist in the 2021 Wynne Prize at the AGNSW with this work. Leah Brady was born in 1962 in Pukatja, a community in the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in South Australia. She comes from a line of important regional leaders. Her mother was a founding director of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council, and her family has been involved in cultural tourism initiatives for the APY Lands. Piltati is the well-known tjukurpa of two snake brothers and their wives, who are sisters, who lived near Piltati, west of Amata.
Leah Brady
Wanampi Tjukurpa (Piltati)
2020
acrylic on linen
243.00 x 198.00 cm
APY Studio cat. 215-20AS Leah was a Finalist in the 2020 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards (NAATSIA) with this work.
Leah Brady
Piltarti tjukurpa
2020
acrylic on linen
198.00 x 244.00 cm
APY Studio cat. 306-20AS Leah was a Finalist in the 2020 Wynne Prize at the AGNSW with this work. "I am painting a really important place located between Amata and Nyapari communities on the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in South Australia – the Piltarti tjukurpa and rock hole. My grandmother was pregnant with my mother at the top of the hill overlooking this rock hole. My mother, Nganyinytja, was an important leader who started the NPY Women’s Council. I have my own commitment to leadership now, having helped senior women start the APY Gallery and Studio for Aṉangu in Adelaide last year; this is where I paint every day I can. I celebrate my culture and work beside other women who have moved to Adelaide. It’s a piece of the APY Lands in the city."