Yabini Kickett is an artist with ties to Ballardong, Nyaki-Nyaki, Wadjuk people of the Bibulmun Nation.

Her work focuses on portraiture, endemic plant and fungal species, and stories from her kin. 

Yabini was a 2017 participant in the Wesfarmers National Indigenous Arts Leadership program in Canberra. 

Since then her work has been acquired by the West Australian Art Gallery, and Yabini has gone on to explore curating with her last project Dejnnung! Yeyi Yorga Koorliny at the Campbelltown Arts Centre in NSW.

Yabini’s residency at the Cannery Arts Centre will largely be based around community engagement with school aged children and in workshops to children and adults. Yabini will assist young people with the development of artworks of Elders for the Cannery’s NAIDOC theme ‘For the Elders’ exhibition. Yabini would also provide skill development opportunities for the wider community, a gouache still life painting workshop for adults and a felt native animals workshop for children and their parents in the KickArts program.

This residency is funded by the Esperance Ag Fund and Regional Arts WA.

Photo by Emma Daisy