About.
Sherrie Jones
February 3 1978
Yamitji – Wajarri – Yindjibarndi
“I was born in Perth, Western Australia. My Mother belong to Meekarratha in the desert of Western Australia. My Father is from the Pilbara, Western Australia, Yindjibarndi Country. I have been an artist for 25 years, my stories are about my country and upbringing with my culture. Being the eldest child, I am the storyteller. Stories from my Grandmother and Grandfather from both sides passed down from generation to generation.”
— Sherrie Jones
Sherrie Jones was born in Perth, Western Australia and moved to Carnarvon with her family where she lived until she was ten years old. She then moved to Coober Pedy in South Australia where she did her early schooling. Sherrie completed her high school at Port Lincoln, whereafter she went back to Western Australia. Inspired by her father and grandfather, she started painting mainly with acrylic paint during her high school years. Her family, from Mirning, Wirangu, Yindjibarndi, and Yamitji groups, passed down stories to her and so they had an important influence on her artwork. Her father was a visual arts teacher at Carnarvon High School in Western Australia. She has learned different ways of doing art and telling her stories through her arts from her Cultures, including different rules and customs, and so Sherrie predominantly paints stories from Country, mapping the Country, vegetation, and different plant species that are used during inma (dance), for healing purposes and ceremony. Being a proud mother of four children, Sherrie hopes that her artwork will influence their lives as her stories will also be passed down to them. As an inspirational arts worker at Arts Ceduna, and a multitalented and experimental artist, Sherrie practices and teaches multiple art forms, including painting, pottery, basket weaving, textiles and artefact making.
Exhibitions.
2021 Malka Art Prize, Port Augusta Cultural Centre
2021 Darwin Art Fair
2020 Malka Art Prize, Yarta Purtli, Port Augusta SA
2019 Have You Met My Sister, Port Pirie SA
2019 No Black Sea's Exhibition; Ku Arts, Tarnanthi, Adelaide SA
2019 Port Lincoln Art Prize, Port Lincoln SA
2018-2019 Primal Project, Streaky Bay SA
2017-2018 Port Lincoln Art prize Exhibition, Port Lincoln SA
2017-2019 Tarnanthi Art Fair, Tandanya, Adelaide SA
2013-2019 Our Mob Exhibition, Festival Centre, Adelaide SA
2018 Adelaide Meets the Bush, NRAW, Tandanya, SA
2018 Coast to Coast, Fisher Jeffries, SA
2018 South Central Stories from Desert to Coast, Redpoles, McLaren Vale SA
2016 GaRa Mirnaarda, Ceduna Memorial Hall
2016 GaRa Mirnaarda, Port Augusta Cultural Centre
2016-2019 Malka Art Exhibition, Port Augusta Cultural Centre Yarta Purtli
2016 Arid Land Sculptural Festival – Life on the Edge, Arind Land Botanical Garden, Port Augusta, SA