Sabrina Spencer b. 1974

Sabrina Spencer lives in the small Aboriginal community of Willowra, some 300 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs. Sabrina predominantly paints two major Dreaming stories, Bush Onion and Bush Medicine.

Sabrina paints in a reduced or monochromatic palette when painting the stories. The waterholes around which bush plants grow are depicted in Sabrina’s paintings as the central roundel and the myriad of white dots and then the dotted lines are representative of the onion. The waterholes provide moisture to the soil around them, allowing the medicinal plants and tucker to flourish. The bush onion is an important source of food that is collected by the women, and it grows around waterholes in Sabrina’s country. The women collect, cook and eat the nutritious onion.

Sabrina is proving herself to be a sought-after artist with a very distinctive op-art style. Through repetition of pattern and a fantastic eye for symmetry, Sabrina creates movement and depth and an overall contemporary aesthetic. Sabrina exhibited at Art Paris in 2020.