Biography

Dreaming: Yirritja
Clan: Gurrumba Gurrumba
Outstation: Ramingining
Community: Ramingining

Shirley is an emerging fibre artist from Ramingining. She began her creative journey as a painter, however taught herself how to weave after years of watching her mother, aunties, and other female relatives weave mats and baskets, she taught herself to weave. Shirley has embraced the practice with remarkable skill, producing dynamic and striking pandanus mats. She continues to create alongside her family, who are also Bula’bula Artists.