Step 1 - Artist Table Sally Harrison

Sally Harrison - Sally Harrison lived a tough life, she became a member of the stolen generation when she was 13 months old and didn't meet her mother again for 43 years. She had a white father and, being half half, she was expected to act like a white woman. She began painting when she was 10 and to her it felt like painting became "a means of escape and a healing tool." Sally Harrison often uses a technique that involves simply looking at the basic shapes and getting the painting colours down then moving over it in layers, and when the painting is finished she goes over the backgrounds and adds an aboriginal style dot-painting theme to it, like in these paintings.