Tracking Bluey Roberts
Born in 1948 in Meningie, South Australia, Bluey Roberts is of the Ngarrindjeri/Kokatha peoples. His artistic career, spanning five decades, consists of public murals, carved and etched emu eggs, boomerangs, coolamons, walking canes and shields, and hundreds of paintings on canvas, and on found and created objects. Through his practice, Bluey tracks the rich diversity of animal and plant life from his homelands of Meningie and the surrounding Coorong, the upper Murray and the Murray River mouth.