Eleanor Coleman is of the Yara Lena community of Ceduna, South Australia. Her paintings of synthetic polymer on canvas are inspired by the plant and animal life of the waters of Murat Bay where Ceduna is located. As a child she would beach-comb, collecting some of the ocean’s harvest that found itself washed up onto the shores of the bay, in particular the starfish. In her artist’s statement for the Ceduna Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Centre, Coleman states that she still has a “passion for painting starfish”.
Coleman is a member of the Ceduna Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Centre.
- Writers:
- Allas, Tess
- Date written:
- 2009
- Last updated:
- 2009
