Teresa Yasserie

My works reflect on a childhood in Peak Hill, with my people of the red dust. The concepts have always reflected on family childhood memories and our environment. Many artworks were developed from visions of marks and tracks animals and little humans in the dust. The images of life on the land and environment are depicted in the style and technique of Storytelling.

The works are on paper mostly Fabriano paper. I work with liquid charcoal and ochre. I used to make my own liquid charcoal cut it from trees burn in tins and grind down with liquid and medium to form a lush liquid. Due to health those days are gone I now use liquid charcoal from the art supplies. I still grind and mix my ochre that I collect with permission from here in Dubbo.

I have been making art for many years now and still enjoy the process of making researching and experimenting in my styles and techniques. My first exhibition was at the maritime museum in Sydney with other Aboriginal artist. I was very fortunate to have my artwork on the cover of the Maritime Museum magazine, which springboard me into the beginning of my art career. 

I went on to university Southern Cross in Lismore. Gained a bachelor of Fine Arts. Majored in printmaking that’s where my love of paper came from. Most of my art was black and white and style was boarding on minimalist style and concepts were all was narrative, telling stories. I was fortunate to attend a printmaking seminar in Alice Springs with Indigenous artist from many communities who shared their styles and techniques a wonderful experience.

During my university years I applied and won the position to design a logo for the WWW 7 conference in Australia that was a great opportunity in my first commission work. The art career hadbegan I received various awards and more commissioned works as well as a special exhibition at the University it was called 10 years an artist was chosen for each year. I was fortunate enough to be selected for the exhibition.

After University I began teaching at schools an TAFE Western NSW. Teaching Aboriginal Cultural Arts. It was during this time I began working with charcoal and ochre in its raw state. Many hours were spent on researching other Indigenous artist and experimental ideas, with many fails and success’s. The future now is slowing down with age and health changes but the desire remains the same. Looking for new concepts that haven’t been explored looking at bringing vibrant colours into a modern mark making artworks