Leanne Reid Wanjidari Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1966 -

Leanne “Wanjidari” Reid, Wadja Wadja artist, was born in 1966 and raised in Woorabinda, an Aboriginal community in central Queensland. Wanjidari is her tribal name, meaning 'little white flower’. In 1984 she moved to Cairns and began art studies at the Aboriginal and Islander Art Centre at Cairns TAFE, graduating in 1986. She has painted ever since, creating works in which symbolic renditions of native forest and sea creatures are set within textured fields of colour.