CRISTINA PRIMITERRA. Born in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia in 1964 from Italian parents, lives her childhood in the uncontaminated Australian landscape and the coralline beaches. Forced to leaves her native country, at 13 years old to Italy, in Riva del Garda, the native town of her mother, where grows up immersed in a new culture.

At 23 years old decides to meet her father again and returns in Australia for a short period of time. From that journey, her trips in Australia become more frequent and her permanence in the country longer. There she discovers her childhood and sensations she had forgotten. The contact with the land and the aborigine culture strongly touches her inner part and influences her thought. Such feelings and colours become paintings in one of her trips in the wetlands of Arnhem Land.

Today, the colours and the symbols of the aborigine culture are the marks of her work of art in Italy. Her original profession, the travel agent, allows her to continue her inspiration journeys in the kangaroo’s land.