I am a multidisciplinary artist, mother and educator living on Yawuru country in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

Drawing inspiration from art history, motherhood, teaching, and my experience as a long-term regional inhabitant, I am interested in the value placed upon the concept of ‘identity’. How do our notions of selfhood and belonging inform the way we see ourselves and others? And what connects us? I am curious about the intersection of experience+thought+body language as a powerful determinant for expression in art and life.

I like to use materials and processes embedded with a sense of time, history or story to enhance meaning as signifiers of the ritual, process or values that underscore our beliefs and attitudes.

Naomie holds a Master of Visual Arts from Monash University in 2012, Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) and Dip Ed from University of Western Australia. She has exhibited locally and interstate, at The Courthouse Gallery & Studio, John Curtin Gallery, Cool Change Contemporary, Moore’s Contemporary Gallery, Brunswick Street Gallery, and Heathcote Goolugalup, and has participated in Fremantle Art Centre’s Artist in Residence Program twice. She was selected for WA Regional Art Survey exhibition The Alternative Archive, toured by ART ON THE MOVE, FORM’s s 2019 Hedland Art Awards, and Bunbury Regional Art Gallery’s South West Art Now in 2010.

 Naomie received High Commendations at the Minnawarra Art Prize in 2010, 2011 and 2024, was awarded the Kimberley Art Prize in 2012, 2018, 2019 and 2022, the Shinju Art Awards 2012, 2018 and 2020, and most recently, was the recipient of the 2024 The Jury Art Prize and Art on the Move + North Midlands Project 8-week Threads in Common/Activating Collections residency.