Billy Duncan

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Billy Jibilloorn Duncan was born in 1974 at Inverway, Nicholson Station on the Northern Territory, Western Australia border. He has four children, two girls and two boys. Like many artists of the Kimberley region before him, including Rover Thomas, Billy originally worked as a ringer then stockman across the Northern Territory and Western Australia including the stations of Inverway, Nicholson and Mistake Creek Stations. After an accident during his stockman days, an injury to his knee forced Billy to change to working on farms in the Kimberley region. He is of Jaru (desert) skin, however his medium is ochre. He paints the country where he worked as a stockman, but now resides in Kununurra and is a senior lore man and artist associated with Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, the first of the Indigenous art communities to open in the Kimberley. Billy Duncan has been painting for approximately ten years and his paintings depict the country of his birth and the various areas where he worked as a stock man. Using a stylised and minimal style, his handling of rich ochres and contrasting pigments such as kaleen and charcoals create a distinctive style. Billy Duncan has achieved considerable acclaim during the past few years and is held in several public collections. His work continues the strong stylistic representation artists of such as Rover Thomas, Paddy Bedford and Madigan Thomas who were his peers and his approach to painting 'country' engages both topographical and mythological aspects of cultural identity.