Carlton Reid

About Artist:
Carlton Isaac Reid's style is strongly contemporary; he is innovative with technique, using thick, bold brush strokes. Often using his hands as a brush, Carlton maintains the cultural colours and ochres used traditionally. This technique is descriptive of the power he wants to push forward in his art. He strips back all the details and the important aspects, allowing the power of the story to remain.

Carlton was brought up with strong bush memories, growing up in the then young Blackstone community. He is 32 years old, educated in the Blackstone school and he is now a strong leader in his community with contemporary ideas and concepts to better his community. Carlton Reid is a contemporary painter while maintaining cultural knowledge and power handed down to him as the next generation of Papulankutja artists.