Keanu Nelson

Keanu Nelson is a young aboriginal Australian artist from the remote but artistically rich community of Papunya, northwest of Alice Springs. He paints in the Western Desert movement style, and, on his album Wilurarrakutu, sings poems from his notebook over minimalist DIY Casio beats programmed by Yuta Matsumura. Keanu wrote these songs as private poems about family, home, and loss. He was finally inspired to sing them, make them public and loudly heard, after meeting Matsumura at the Papunya Tjupi Arts Centre.