Bronwyn Bancroft is a Bundjalung artist whose work is embedded in personal experiences based on connection to Country, family, community, and history. Her work maintains and celebrates her family’s cultural heritage while powerfully advocating for the acceptance and diversity of Aboriginal identity in Australia.
Boab tree, bountiful in shape, standing on the plains is an animated adaptation of an artwork from Bancroft’s acclaimed children’s book Why I Love Australia. A visual and poetic celebration of Country, the book uses imagery with lyrical text to capture the awe-inspiring beauty of the Australian landscape and her enduring love for it.
Bancroft has been painting and creating since a small child and has consistently interwoven family and historical contexts in a distinctive visual language of figuration combined with delicate layers and intricate patterning. She moved to Sydney in 1981 after completing her Diploma of Visual Arts and established her shop ‘Designer Aboriginals’ in 1985 in Rozelle.
In 1987 Bancroft was part of a group of Sydney-based Aboriginal artists including Euphemia Bostock, Brenda L. Croft, Fiona Foley, Fernanda Martins, Arone Raymond Meeks, Tracey Moffatt, Avril Quaill, Michael Riley and Jeffrey Samuels who collectively founded Boomalli which means ‘to strike’ or ‘make a mark’ in the languages of the Gomileroi, Wiradjuri and Bundjalung Nations.
This projection is a creative project by Lismore Regional Gallery in the Lismore Quadrangle, supported by the New South Wales Government through Create NSW.
