Jandamarra cadd biography of rory

Jandamarra Cadd is striving to integrate the black and white parts within himself – and is equally dedicated to uniting black and white cultures in Australia’s fractured society.

Jandamarra cadd biography of rory

Over the past 20 years, the artist has focused on portraying interracial unity in his stunning portraits that have shaken up the art world Down Under.

Jandamarra is proud to be an indigenous Aboriginal Australian – a First Nations man.

His mother is Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Warung, while his father is of Scottish and Swedish descent.

He grew up in Tingalpa, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, immersed in the stories shared by his mother, grandmother and aunties: “I grew up walking these two worlds.

I absorbed a lot of intergenerational trauma from both sides of my family. With my mother’s side, there was the deep pain of the Stolen Generation, being rounded up, segregated on missions and being beaten and raped. 

“For multiple generation