ARTISTS
At the heart of the Nomad Two Worlds Foundation is a belief that art can bridge cultures and create lasting change.
Each artist we collaborate with brings a powerful story — one shaped by heritage, community, and lived experience. Through these collaborations, we seek to honour those stories and provide a platform where creativity becomes a voice for cultural pride, reconciliation, and empowerment.
The works featured here embody the spirit of connection that drives the Foundation’s mission — to celebrate diversity, strengthen understanding, and open pathways for Indigenous and marginalized artists to share their art and stories with the world.
COLLABORATIVE ARTIST - AUSTRALIA
CLIFTON BIEUNDURRY Clifton is a Perth based Walmajarri artist who is the foundation artist for Nomad Two Worlds and an internationally exhibited artist in his own right. Clifton’s works seek to bridge the cultural divide by explaining aspects of his Walmajarri culture, as well as sharing stories from his own childhood in the Great Sandy Desert. “I paint to share my culture with all people… it is important that we can all gain an understanding of our diversity and differences so we can accept and learn from each other.”
Language Group: Walmajarri;
Region: Kimberley
EDWIN LEE MULLIGAN Edwin is a Walmajarri artist from the Central Kimberley region of WA, who uses his painting to share stories and dreams of his culture and family. Edwin has exhibited with Nomad Two Worlds in the USA, Europe and Australia and as a solo artist in various international locations. He is also the recipient of several art awards, including the Shinju and Kimberley Indigenous Art Prizes.
Language Group: Walmajarri;
Region: Kimberley
DEBORAH BONAR Deborah is a Perth based graphic designer who is proficient in many art forms including drawing, painting, digital design, glasswork and printmaking. Much of her work is inspired by the Midwest and East Kimberley regions of WA, the heartlands of her Yamatji and Gija heritage. Deborah has exhibited her works widely in WA and has previously been a recipient of the coveted Cossack Art Award and a finalist in the 23rd Annual Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Language Group: Gija / Yamatji; Region: Kimberley / Midwest
NATHAN MUNDRABY Nathan is a North Queensland based artist who has a distinctive and detailed style of cross-hatching using very fine brushes and tools. Nathan was taught by his grandparents, parents and Aboriginal elders the ways of his people through stories, dancing and art. Nathan has exhibited his collaborative works with Nomad Two Worlds in the USA, Europe and Australia. He is also a talented didgeridoo player and has recently performed with Hugh Jackman in North America and for Nomad Two Worlds in Germany.
Language Group: Mandingalbay;
Region: Northern Queensland
LANCE CHADD Lance paints under his tribal name ‘Tjyllyungoo’ (elder man / wisdom / law) and has been a leading Noongar / Yamatji artist for 45 years. Locally and internationally his works can be found in many collections, including the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Berndt Museum collection. Lance has been the recipient of an extensive list of awards, including the Australia Council Fellowship, Naidoc Artist of the Year and the BHP Acquisitive Award for Excellence in the ‘Noongar Country’ exhibition.
Language Group: Noongar / Yamatji;
Region: Southwest / Midwest
JILALGA MURRAY RANUI Jilalga is a Perth based artist who has trained in graphic design. Her family ties are in the Pilbara region of WA. Jilalga has been the recipient of several art awards, including the coveted Cossack Art Award and the City of Belmont Acquisitive Art Award. Jilalga’s works are included in a number of private international collections and have also been featured in various community art projects, including the Port Hedland International Airport mural.
Language Group: Nyangumarta;
Region: Pilbara
BESSIE DAYLIGHT Bessie is a member of the internationally recognised Warmun Art Centre located in the East Kimberley region of WA. Bessie paints with ochres, which she gathers from her homelands of Texas Downs around Warmun. These ochres have been used as body paint in traditional ceremonies and on rock paintings in caves for thousands of years and have now made the transition to canvas. Bessie has exhibited in many group shows with other Warmun artists, most significantly an exhibition by Texas Downs women at a Perth gallery.
Language Group: Gija;
Region: Kimberley
ELLA ROSE TAYLOR Ella is an emerging artist with cultural connections to the Gija people of Halls Creek. Although Ella has only been painting professionally for a relatively short time, her works have already been exhibited in several group collections, including the Belmont City and Wadanji Festival. Ella’s works also feature in several private collections, including that of the Lord Mayor of Perth. She is part of an arts group that recently won a tender to provide art for the foyer of the Fiona Stanley Hospital.
Language Group: Gija;
Region: Kimberley
PETER FARMER Peter is a Noongar artist who holds degrees in contemporary Aboriginal art and visual fine arts from Curtin University of WA. He paints his totem of the blue wren and stories from his grandmother’s country. Peter’s work has featured in many public art installations and collections, including the National Gallery of Australia and the Government House Art Collection in Perth. Peter has also been the recipient of a number of art awards, including Perth Naidoc Visual Artist of the Year and the Bassendean Art Award.
Language Group: Noongar;
Region: Southwest
RICHARD WALLEY Richard is a prominent figure in the WA arts community and has spent the past three decades exploring various artistic ventures ranging from highly traditional works to more contemporary pieces. Richard’s artistic life has seen him receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Western Australia and Murdoch University, receive the Order of Australia medal and announced as the Naidoc Artist of the Year for his contribution to arts and culture. “Through music, dance and art we can achieve natural highs and inner strength...”
Language Group: Noongar;
Region: Southwest
REBECCA MORGAN Rebecca is a Kimberley artist who descends from the Gija and Wanambal people on her father’s side and her Yawuru mother. Rebecca has held solo exhibitions in Broome and Sydney and recently presented her collaborative works in Berlin as part of the Nomad Two Worlds collection. “My art is very personal and captures themes that include family values, unity, the journey of life and dreamtime stories passed down to me by my father and elders.”
Language Group: Gija / Wanambal / Yawuru;
Region: Kimberley
SUSAN COOPER WYATT Susan is a painter and illustrator from Kalgoorlie. She has illustrated a number of children’s books and was a finalist in the Archibald Portrait Prize with her portrait of Doris Pilkington (Rabbit Proof Fence). She is well respected in the arts community and has sat as a panel member for several terms for Arts WA / WA Department of Culture and the Arts. “During my childhood in Kalgoorlie my family cared for traditional Aboriginal people ‘our extended family’ which had a significant influence on my life and art.”
Language Group: Wongatha;
Region: Goldfields
COLLABORATIVE ARTIST - HAITI
PHILIPPE DODARD Philippe, a native Haitian, studied from a young age with the Haitian masters Jean-Claude Garoute (Tiga), Patrick Vilaire and Frido - founders of the Poto-Mitan School. Complimentary academic study at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, focused on pedagogic graphic design. A quest for a deeper knowledge of spiritual man led him to the Kripalu Yoga Ashram. After the popular uprising against dictatorship in Haiti in 1986, his style completely changed from his much lauded, fluid water imagery to much stronger strokes of black and white inks, coated paintings, wooden totems and metal sculptures reflecting the ‘Cry for Freedom’ of the Haitian people. He became co founder and President of socially conscious Fondation Culture Creation (1992-1999), Dodard was also the Cultural Adviser for the First Lady Elisabeth D. Preval, and the artistic leader of Plas Timoun, a psycho-social project created for the relief of children affected by the earthquake of January 12, 2010. He was instrumental in the reconstruction of the iron market in Haiti as the project chief for Arts & Ambiances. His new work ‘The Rising Soul’ is now in the permanent collection in Triennal Internacional del Caribe au Museo de Arte Moderno a Santo Domingo. In 2011, after meeting Donna Karan and Russell James in Haiti, Dodard began his collaborations with Urban Zen and Nomad Two Worlds and was the July 2011 Ambassador of Urban Zen Foundation.
DUBREUS LHERISSON Dubreus’ style is deeply rooted in voodoo spirituality. It follows the traditional Houmfor (Voodoo Temple) techniques of making sculptures and flags with fabrics, human skulls, sequins, wax and mirrors, although he himself remains a devoted member of the Lakou Voodoo Temple. After the devastating earthquake which struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, Lherisson was forced to move into the countryside as all of his belongings, workshop and Lakou were instantly destroyed. The making of his NOMAD TWO WORLDS art, in a makeshift tented workshop, made James and the Gallerie Monnin extremely proud and grateful to be able to add it to the Los Angeles exhibition.
PASCALE MONNIN Born in Port-au-Prince to Swiss parents, Monnin’s artwork reflects a spherical immersion in vastly opposing cultures. European influences and deeply spiritual Haitian symbolism and iconography mix her Two Worlds, creating her own, unique “personal mythology” told by the characters and animals in her paintings, “sometimes friendly, sometimes terrible.” Internationally shown and acclaimed, Pascale resides and works in Haiti.
REINOLD CLERISIER Reinold, born in Anse-a-Folier near Port-au-Prince is a talented sequin artist in the old tradition of Depitation. Sequin artists are among the most gentle, knowing and spiritual people on earth. With a steady rhythm, they thread thousands of beads and sequins, a cadence that can be compared to the chanting of a prayer, creating a complex combination of color and iconography associated with the Iwa (Voodoo spirits).
COLLABORATIVE ARTIST - UNITED STATES
JAMIE OKUMA Jamie, NOMAD TWO WORLDS’ first female collaborator, is of Luiseno and Shoshone-Bannock on her mothers side, her father is Okinawan from Hawaii. She was born in Glendale California and spent her first five years in the city before moving to the La Jolla Indian Reservation in San Diego County.
Jamie attended the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the fall of 2000. That same year she was awarded a fellowship from the Southwestern Association for American Indian Arts (SWAIA) and at the age of 22, was the youngest artist in the history of Santa Fe Indian Market to win Best of Show, the first of her four Best in Show awards: two from SWAIA and two from the Heard Museum Indian Fair and Market. Jamie has been featured in numerous publications, museum exhibitions, won many awards, consulted with the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of the American Indian’s exhibition Identity by Design, and currently featured in the exhibition Grand Procession at the Denver Art Museum. Jamie is best known for the intricacy and extreme authenticity of her beadwork, and is also a much-lauded painter.
SANDRA OKUMA Sandra is a Luiseno and Shoshone -Bannock from the La Jolla Indian Reservation. She grew up traveling between La Jolla where her father was from and Fort Hall Idaho, home of her mother’s Shoshone-Bannock relations. After a highly successful career in commercial art and graphic design in Los Angeles, Sandra and her husband decided to return the reservation where their only daughter Jamie could be raised to know her heritage, and Sandra began to focus on more traditional Native America artistic expression. In 1998, mother and daughter showed at the Santa Fe Indian Market for the first time, where Sandra won best in paintings. Since that time, many awards and numerous publications have followed.