Ethel Sambo b. 1940

  • Artist (Painter)
Ethel Sambo works in a variety of media including oil, synthetic polymer paint and watercolours on canvas, board and paper. Her works talk of her grandmother's stories that were taught to her as a child.
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Born in 1940 of the Marri-A-Mmau clan of the Daly River in the Northern Territory, Ethel Sambo was living in North Queensland in 2007. She works in a variety of media including oil, synthetic polymer paint and watercolours on canvas, board and paper. Her works talk of her grandmother’s stories, taught to her as a child. Sambo’s work was featured in the 2001 “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” exhibition in Brisbane.

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Allas, Tess Note:
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011

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