Teresa Baker was born in 1977 in Alice Springs hospital. Her mother Kay Baker is a Pitjantjatjara woman from Kanpi and her father a Pitjantjatjara man from Yalata. Teresa spent much of her youth with her grandfather Jimmy Baker, learning about the country and the sacred stories associated with it.
Today she works full time at Murputja school and is passing on the knowledge she learned to the next generation. She continues her teacher training with annual courses and cares for 5 children, still finding time to paint in school holidays and at night time.
She began painting in 2005, under her grandfather’s guidance. While her paintings have qualities reminiscent of her late grandfather Jimmy Baker, she has found her own individual way of mark-making and using iconography. Like her grandfather, she utilises the power of negative space, and uses it in her paintings. A talented and intuitive artist, her paintings possess great depth of expression, often depicting stories of the Tjukurpa (Dreamtime) creation being, Malilu.
One of the younger artists at Tjungu Palya Arts, Teresa brings a different energy to work which consciously evokes that of her grandfather. Married with three children, Teresa spends her time between Alice Springs, Kanpi and her homelands in Watarru.
Teresa Baker was born in 1977 in Alice Springs hospital. Her mother Kay Baker is a Pitjantjatjara woman from Kanpi and her father a Pitjantjatjara man from Yalata. Teresa spent much of her youth with her grandfather Jimmy Baker, learning about the country and the sacred stories associated with it.
Today she works full time at Murputja school and is passing on the knowledge she learned to the next generation. She continues her teacher training with annual courses and cares for 5 children, still finding time to paint in school holidays and at night time.
She began painting in 2005, under her grandfather’s guidance. While her paintings have qualities reminiscent of her late grandfather Jimmy Baker, she has found her own individual way of mark-making and using iconography. Like her grandfather, she utilises the power of negative space, and uses it in her paintings. A talented and intuitive artist, her paintings possess great depth of expression, often depicting stories of the Tjukurpa (Dreamtime) creation being, Malilu.
One of the younger artists at Tjungu Palya Arts, Teresa brings a different energy to work which consciously evokes that of her grandfather. Married with three children, Teresa spends her time between Alice Springs, Kanpi and her homelands in Watarru.