Writer | Old Man Fire

Nunami is a palawa and Warlpiri woman born and raised in Nipaluna/Hobart, with cultural and familiar ties to both Northeast Tasmania and the Tanami Desert. 

As a storyteller Nunami works across text, performance, and visual arts mediums. Nunami is interested in seasonality and palawa perspectives of place. Her work often centres on the examination of the layered and overlooked histories of landscapes. Recently, Nunami has made work for MONA, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Constance ARI, the Clarence Jazz Festival, and Ten Days on the Island.

Nunami has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tasmania and is the founder of Blak Led Tours Tasmania, Aboriginal tourism enterprise. Nunami was named Young Aboriginal of the year in 2015 at the state NAIDOC Awards. She was named Tourism Minister’s Young Achiever at the Tasmanian Tourism awards in 2022 and received a Special Achievement NAIDOC award for truth telling the same year.