Pitjantjatjara artist and translator/ interpreter at the Institute of Aboriginal Development Language Centre in Alice Springs (NT), Patricia Boko's work has been shown in numerous exhibitions around the country. She was a member of Jukurrpa Artists in Alice Springs.
Born at Titjikala (Maryvale) in 1963, Patricia Boko is a Pitjantjatjara speaker who lives with her husband and four children in Alice Springs. She works as a translator/interpreter at the Institute for Aboriginal Development Language Centre. She was taught to paint by her mother, Eileen BOKO, her maternal grandfather’s Dreamings (Snake, Homesick) from the Petermann Ranges. She has participated in exhibitions in Alice Springs and Canberra and sold her paintings through Jukurrpa artists’ co-operative and the CAAMA sho
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Johnson, Vivien
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1994
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2011
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Jukurrpa Artists (associate of)
CAAMA (Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association) (associate of)