Fremantle based Yamatji and Wongi painter Jonathon Richard Doughty is from an artistic family. His father, Phillip Doughty, is a landscape painter and his paternal grandmother is also a painter. Doughty began painting with his father at the Ottey Centre, a community centre run by the City of Cockburn Council which is situated in the southern outskirts of Fremantle. In 2009 Doughty and his father enrolled in Kidogo Art Institute’s Certificate III course in Visual Art and Contemporary Craft. In June and July of 2009 the students of this course, along with some invited artists, presented their works in the 'Moorditj Mob’ exhibition at Kidogo Arthouse.
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- Writers:
- Allas, Tess
- Date written:
- 2009
- Last updated:
- 2011
