Kim Mahood

born 1953, Braidwood, New South Wales

Kim was born in Perth and grew up in Central Australia and in cattle country on Mongrel Downs station in the Tanami Desert.

An artist and writer, her memoir Craft for a Dry Lake was published in 2000 and won the 2001 New South Wales Premier’s Award and the Age non-fiction Book of the Year.

She has been working with Paruku artists on cultural mapping projects since 2005.