Janice Stanley is the third generation of Stanley women to create artwork at Ernabella Arts. She is an early career painter and ceramic arst showing great promise.
Her grandmother is a founding artist and traditional healer Tjariya Stanley and her aunts are senior artists, Alison Milyika Carroll and Renita Stanley.
Janice has two children.
Janice’s paintings depict pantu, or salt lakes near Alla (Mt Conoor). This is a significant location for the Seven Sisters creation story. This story tells of seven sisters running across the country creating landforms in their wake. Although Janice has never seen them from this perspective herself, she imagines viewing the salt lakes from above.
Expositions, florilège / Selected exhibitions
2021 Painting Now – Peindre aujourd’hui en terres aborigènes, IDAIA, Le Havre, France
SOURCE: Ernabella Arts.