Jonas is a Barngarla artist from South Australia. She is owner of Barlarri Aboriginal Art in Quorn at the gateway to the stunning Flinders Ranges in South Australia.

Inspired by her mother’s leadership in the successful 25-year Barn­garla land claim, Jonas continues her mother’s legacy. With an interdisciplinary visual background, Jonas explores socio-cultural environment issues affecting Aboriginal people through digital media, photography, paint and film making.  She has sold works in Australia and internationally for the past 10 years and is now emerging into the exhibition scene. Her films have been selected for a number of international festivals, and she has had numerous commissions to produce artwork for national political, cultural and environmental campaigns.

“I am of this country and I have a responsibility and an obligation to look after it – I do that through my art.  Our art is our jukurrpa, our songlines, our culture, our law, ourselves.  Our paintings are documents of our land rights, the title deeds for our culture and the land past, present and future.”