2025 Great Kanku-Breakaways Bolt artist Susie Prince

Susie Prince joined Umoona Community Art Centre (UCAC) in January 2025. Born in Indulkana APY Lands, Prince works across painting, drawing, tjanpi (weaving) and inma (performance). Her abstract line paintings refer to women’s ceremonial dances specifically the female body animated by the land. Her visceral brush strokes embody the aesthetic motion shared in the acts of painting, dance, and the movement of wind on sand dunes. The paintings represent these multiple acts as a single image of Country reasserting the Indigenous concept of Country and Anangu (people) being one in the same thing.

Umoona Community Art Centre (UCAC):

Umoona Community Arts Centre (UCAC) is an Indigenous-owned and governed, members-run organisation, located in the autonomous zone of Umoona Community on the border of Kupa Piti (Coober Pedy). Established in 2020, UCAC joins a kinship of commercial studios across the APY Lands known as the APY Art Centre Collective with the central aim of capacity building and sustainable employment pathways as professional artists and/or arts workers. UCAC is a multi-cultural studio with over 30 members, aged 16-70, from different language groups across the Central Desert alongside those born in Umoona and Kupa Piti. The artists have worked tirelessly with unified passion and focus to bring their dream of owning and operating a permanent art centre a reality. The centre houses a wide range of practices including painting, punu (traditional woodwork), tjanpi (fibre weaving) and ceramics, representing a diversity of styles in colour palettes and mark making.