Vincent Forrester
You Get The Picture - Solo Exhibition 2024

15 January - 31 March 2024

Vincent paints stories from the Dreaming. His art represents a story and a “spiritual legacy” for his descendants.

Vincent often uses the traditional methods of preparing natural ground-up paint made at Uluru. The same traditional colours used for ceremonial body paint.

He sits on the ground at his home in Alice Springs, blending a mixture of ochre, saliva and binder to create a rich red paste.

Vincent applies the paste to a large canvas, stretched out in front of him, working slowly across its surface, with both ends of a sable brush.

Growing up as a stockman and station hand, Vincent came to know his country intimately. His grandfather’s showed him the landscape and told him the stories, associated with his country and Alice Springs, where he became the Aboriginal historian of the area.

His grandmothers showed him bush foods and bush medicine for both Luritja and Aranda country. It was in his teens when working as a cattleman, that the tourism industry was in its infancy and Vincent began working as a tour guide.

He later became a very popular guide at Kings Canyon, a ranger at Uluru/Kata Juta National Park and later a specialist guide at Alice Springs Desert Park.