Jandamarra Cadd
Jandamarra Cadd is a Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung descendant, an acclaimed portrait artist, and a deeply generous storyteller whose work is grounded in care, connection, and truth. With a warm and intuitive presence, he brings people together through art that is both vibrant and emotionally resonant. His expressive portraiture carries stories of identity, resilience, and belonging, creating gentle but powerful bridges between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australia.
Jandamarra’s work has been recognised at the highest level of Australian portraiture. He has been a finalist in every major national portrait prize, including the Archibald Prize, notably for his portrait of the late Uncle Archie Roach. His illustrations have appeared in numerous publications, extending his storytelling beyond the canvas and into everyday life.
In recognition of his profound contribution to community and culture, Jandamarra was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in the Creative Industries in 2018. He also made history as the first and only Aboriginal artist in over 100 years to be commissioned by Parliament House, where he created a portrait of Nova Peris OAM, the first Aboriginal woman elected to the Australian Federal Parliament.
Beyond his visual practice, Jandamarra is a much-loved and inspiring speaker who has travelled across Australia and internationally, sharing stories of connection to Country and the loving responsibility of custodianship that comes with it. With compassion and honesty, he speaks about healing from the deep wounds left by colonisation, genocide, and forced separation from natural and cultural Law, and from the intergenerational trauma that continues to be carried today.
Through both his art and his voice, Jandamarra leads with kindness, humility, and strength. His work invites reflection, understanding, and hope, offering spaces where listening, healing, and shared humanity can gently unfold.
Acrylic on Canvas
50x60cm
Keeping the beauty and joy alive in our little ones is part of the custodial responsibility of our family and our community as part of our Kinship Lore.. Where they grow with a loving understanding that everything they see and experience is a part of them. To be loved and looked after with such sacred reverence. As they learn to walk tall in constant connection with everything around them.
Nature
Oil and acrylic on canvas
120cmW x 100cmH
A young First Nations girl sharing bush medicine for an ant bite with her mature aged friend.
Nothing exists in nature on its own. Everything is in relationship. Wherever there is something that stings or bites or irritates you. Within a 50 meter radius is the antidote, salve and healing partner to this. This is part of the natural Lore that is there to guide us all back to balance within and without.
Price on Application
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Oil and acrylic on canvas
120cmW x 100cm H
A mother and daughter sharing an intimate moment in the ocean.. As the little girl is held firmly in her mothers arms she is reminded that as she makes her own way in life she is never alone. Her connection to family and country as part of her kinship Lore are always with her as she walks within two worlds.
$3,300
Vibration
Oil on canvas
120cmW x 100cmH
This is a moment of connection between traditional Gubbi Gubbi /Kabi Kabi custodian and a young boy. The young boy was really enjoying the vibration of this traditional instrument as it was played. This painting is a clear reflection of how easy it is for us all to live and learn from one another.
$3,300
Identity
Acrylic on Canvas
155cmH x 105cmW
This is about remembering who we really are in relationship to county, the animals, the elements. As we live in alignment with that natural Lore everything begins to flow like a river as our identity is not based in isolation but rather walking tall with everything around us.
$5,000