Biddee Baadjo, a senior Wangkatjungka woman, was born around 1938, near Purrpurn waterhole, located in her ancestral country in the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia. When she was still a baby, she was snatched by an eagle from a coolamon, where she had been left sleeping by her mother when the family was out hunting. Her mother saw the eagle swoop away with the child, and chased after it. The eagle dropped Biddee into the spinifex grass, and her mother found her there crying.

During the 1940s Biddee Baadjos family joined the exodus of Wangkatjungka people who left the desert and travelled north towards the cattle station country of the Fitzroy valley region. People followed the Canning Stock Route towards Bililuna, or travelled north west following a trail of creekbeds and waterholes, that headed towards Fitzroy Crossing.

Today Biddee Baadjo lives at Wangkatjungka Community, located adjacent to Christmas Creek station. Artists began painting there in 1994. Biddee lives with her two husbands, fellow painter Luurn Willy Kew and his blind brother, the traditional healer Bluey Thomas. Biddees paintings relocate the significant waterholes and hunting areas that have been the province of her family for countless generations.

Selected Exhibitions:

2004 Wangkatjungka Women, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2004 Jila & Tali  Waterholes and Sandhills, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2004 Paintings from Wangkatjungka, Fire-Works Gallery, Brisbane
2004 Striking Colours of the Living Desert Walkabout Gallery, Sydney
2004 Artists of Wangkatjungka Raintree Gallery, Darwin
2004 Tali and Jila, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2005 Artists of Wangkatjungka, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
2005 Yirmpurr (Living Water) ,Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2005 Wangkatjungka Artists, Walkabout Gallery, Sydney
2005 Big Country Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2005 Wangkatjungka, Ladner and Fell Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Wangkatjunka Artists: Stories from The Great Sandy Desert, Tandanya, Adelaide