Katrina Brown Williams

My mother was a traditional dot painter and my father painted in oils.

I’ve always been around painting – we had a home studio as I grew up and Mum would always get me to paint dingo tracks.

I was smoked as a baby at Ali Curung which is Dog Dreaming Country and we would spend every school holidays there.

After my mother passed away when I was nine, however, I became disconnected from my culture.

In about 2015 I moved to WA to work in the mines and stopped painting – but TC kept calling me until I moved back here in 2023.

Like many young people I have suffered with Mental Health issues and coming back to painting really was my trauma therapy. It is the space in which I learn about my culture, my self and my spirituality.

I love hanging out with the ladies at the art centre – I’m related to almost all of them so it’s so important for me to be able to sit down and learn from them.

Kat is a Featured Emerging Artist at the 2025 Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair.