June Peters Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1962 -

June Peters is an accomplished Warmun artist who works in the traditional ochre style of the East Kimberley. June Peters was born on Texas Downs Station in 1962. After June’s parents died, she was taken into the family of senior ochre artist Madigan Thomas and her husband Sandy Thomas. June Peters started learning the skills of ochre painting from Lena Nyadbi, who played a major role in teaching younger artists about both traditional Gidja (also spelt Kitja) culture and painting.

Through her extended family June Peters has access to the stories and knowledge of large expanses of Gidja country, including Purnululu (Bungles) and Doon Doon. June Peters has inherited access to this part of her culture through her aunties and uncles, which provides her with a broad sweep of subject matter for her paintings.

June Peters has travelled extensively through her ancestral country, so her paintings have a degree of precision and authenticity that comes with the knowledge of country. June remains fastidious about the representations of Kitja Dreaming stories in her paintings. June Peters paints in the typical Warmun style, using thick, crusty ochre, but also manages to create fine and detailed imagery using a minimal palette. June Peters began exhibiting at Japingka Gallery in 2007 when she exhibited in the group show East Kimberley Ochre Painters. Aboriginal art status – Mid career artist.