Keith Brown was born in 1948 in Guyra in the New England region of NSW. His father is from the Ngarabal (Nyangbal) people and his mother is a Birpai woman. Brown, along with his brother, would accompany their father when he went bush to trap rabbits and hunt kangaroo.
Brown works as a carver of boomerangs, crafting them from the elbows and bends of Mulga trees, and most recently as a painter of acrylic and sand on canvas. In 2006 he was the winner of the Festival of Fisher’s Ghost Art Award at Campbelltown Arts Centre and has received two awards at the Blacktown City Art Exhibition at Blacktown Arts Centre.
In 2007 Brown was a finalist in the Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize with his work Trapping tracks.
- Writers:
- Allas, Tess
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- Date written:
- 2008
- Last updated:
- 2011
