Oodgeroo Noonuccal
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Name
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Other names
Ruska, Kathleen Jean Mary.
Walker, Kath.
Culture
Aboriginal Australian
Gender
Female
Birth date
3 November 1920
Birth place
Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island), Queensland, Australia View on map Close map
Death date
16 September 1993
Death Place
Australia View on map Close map
Occupations
Activist | Artist (textile) | Poet | Printmaker
NGA IRN
18954
Context
Australia
Biography
Kath WALKER
Kath Walker, or Oodgeroo Noonuccal, was born at Stradbroke Island, Queensland. She has worked in domestic service and during the war joined the army. She has been involved with the Civil rights movement and the fight to have the discriminating anti-aboriginal articles removed from the Constitution which was achieved in 1967.
Her first volume of poetry We are going was published in 1964 and she published several more books since. She now lives on Stradbroke Island where she conducts camps for children, teaching them about Aboriginal life. In addition to these activities, Kath Walker has been drawing for most of her life and in 1985 a collection of her drawings Quandamooka, the art of Kath Walker was published.
Sine 1987 she has used her Aboriginal name Oodgeroo Noonucal.
Her screenprinted fabrics produced in 1980 on cotton were designed for Doona covers.
© ada 1991
© ada 1991
Affiliation
Noonuccal people