Edward Blitner

Edward Blitner was born on the 24th December 1991.

Edward Blitner is from Naiyarlindji country and lived for may years at the Ngukurr Community (now called Yugul Mangl) on the Roper River in the Northern Territory.

Edward attended school at Concordia College in Adelaide until he was sixteen year old. As a young man he worked as a stock-man and farmhand.

Edward learned painting from his grandfather who painted on bark with natural ochre and while working on a particular painting, he recounted the Dreaming stories and taught the children appropriate songs and dance cycles.

Edward Blitner is an accomplished painter who paints with natural ochre on canvas. He is also a wood carver (some of his bird carvings are more than two metres high and are fully decorated in cross hatchings called rrarrk).

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