Kuti (Cockles)

Katherine Moore

Size: 120 x 60cm

The Story: “My Nan used to talk about the way she would shuffle her feet in the sand so the Kuti (cockles) would rise to the surface so she could eat them”.

Kath is a Ngarrindjeri and Kaurna woman, and contemporary Aboriginal artist from Adelaide, South Australia. Her Nan, Doris Kropinyeri, grew up at Raukkan, a mission on the Coorong, south of Adelaide. Kath has a strong connection to the country and waters of the Coorong being where she finds a lot of inspiration for her artwork. Her artwork tells the stories of her Nan’s life growing up on the mission, stories of the Ngarrindjeri people as well as her own story, of her family and raising two children in Adelaide.