Jandamarra Cadd
Jandamarra is a Sunshine Coast Indigenous Artist and Art Teacher with his origins being the Yorta Yorta People in Victoria. With an art career spanning 25 years, he began visually documenting stories from his tribal area and over time has evolved to become primarily a portrait artist. He uses a variety of styles and mediums, favouring
oil on canvas, and uses his art to express messages of unity and unconditional love.
Jandamarra is a pioneer in Aboriginal Portraiture and in 2012/2013 toured his solo exhibition throughout metro and regional Victoria and Queensland. He regularly enters the Archibald Prize, and has been a finalist for Visual Artist of the Year in the Deadly Awards. With multiple People’s Choice awards in various exhibitions, he has fast become a much sought after Artist for portrait commissions as well as to run workshops at annual festivals such as the Woodford Folk Festival.
Painting has been a way of life that has enabled Jandamarra to express his creativity and the universal truth of connection. In many of his paintings of the human condition, he seeks to be a peaceful voice for the oppressed and minorities. His focus is to use portraiture in a way to allow the viewer a glimpse into the depths of humanity and the expansive expression of the individual soul.
