Iteka Ukarla SANDERSON-BROMLEY

Iteka Ukarla Sanderson-Bromley is an Adnyamathanha (Flinders Ranges), Narungga (Yorke Peninsula) and Wangkangurru Yarluyandi (Simpson Desert) woman born in 2000 in Adelaide, South Australia.

Connection to culture is paramount in her practice and she regularly spends time travelling home to Country and learning from family and Elders. She is actively involved in her culture and enjoys sharing culture through her art, education, and dance. She works as an educator providing guided cultural tours in Adelaide and Flinders Ranges and delivering cultural education sessions as part of her family’s businesses Bookabee Australia and Kumarninthi Cultural Education. She is a member of Aboriginal dance groups ‘Of Desert & Sea’ and Tal-Kin-Jeri, and Aboriginal art collective ‘Malka Wiriwiri Arts’.

She founded Malka Wiriwiri Arts (meaning making art together in Adnyamathanha language) in 2018. Since then, her brothers Tjimarri and Temaana have joined. Together they create art sharing stories of their culture and family’s knowledge. Sanderson-Bromley is a multi-disciplinary artist, working across mediums including acrylic on canvas, ceramics, silk painting, digital art, printmaking and mixed media. In recent years, her work has been featured in group exhibitions including Youth Scape and OUR MOB.

She was awarded Royal South Australian Society of Arts Youth Scape mixed media award in 2020 and 2022, and the three-dimensional art award in 2020. In 2022, she was selected as the City of Adelaide’s NAIDOC artist of the year. In 2023, her artworks were acquired by the Governor of South Australia and Adelaide Festival Centre’s Works of Art Collection. Her work is held in international private collections, including the President of Malta.