Nyree Reynolds
Region: Gamilaraay

Nyree ( Ngari) Reynolds, an Aboriginal woman of the Gamilaraay Nation, is a
Community Artist / Tutor based in the Central West of NSW. She has facilitated art workshops
for many years for disabled adults; people with a mental illness; in drug and alcohol
rehabilitation centres: with Indigenous and non Indigenous children; youth at risk; in aged
care facilities; with local councils in public art projects with children; training the trainers
through Accessible Arts, Sydney and in CDEP’s throughout NSW and Victoria.

Nyree paints Contemporary Aboriginal art as well as pet portraits. Her work is represented
in many private collections both in Australia and overseas. Her collaborative work with Joy
Engelman was recently shortlisted for the ‘Drawing Together’ Award in Canberra and was
purchased by the Department of Environment and Water Resources for their executive
suite. Nyree has received awards for her work in NSW and has had solo exhibitions as
well as exhibited in many, many group exhibitions. Her Gallery, Caminka Gallery of Blayney,
was represented at both Art Sydney 05 and 06.

As Seniors Week Ambassador for the NSW Department of Aging and Home Care in 2005
and 2006 Nyree presented awards in the Awards Ceremony at the Sydney Town Hall as
well as facilitating art workshops at the Redfern Community Centre and Lee Hostel in
Blayney.

Nyree is inspired by the colours of the Central West and is touched by the stories of the
Stolen Generations of Aboriginal people which she combines to create her vibrant contemporary
works in acrylic on canvas and sgrafitto on paper. Nyree also wishes to honour
the memory of her Mum who told her stories of her childhood growing up black and how
she was made to feel back in the early 20th Century. Her great grandmother lived at Burra
Bee Dee, the Mission outside Coonababrabran and her Mum was born in the foothills of
the Warrumbungle Mountains so this country is very special to Nyree.

Her love for animals and for painting them has given her many commissions to paint other
people’s dearly loved pets as well as her own.