Lulu Cooley
Lulu Cooley is a senior artist and consummate carver with many years experience. She specialises in piti and wira, traditional bowls, as well as walka boards. Lulu learned her carving skills from her mother and other female relatives in the 1960s by closely observing their practice, developing her beautiful, distinctive ‘scallop’ style.
Lulu and husband Billy Cooley have always worked closely together, raising their six children and making spectacular carvings on their home land, Ulaipa near Amata on the APY Lands of South Australia. Long term directors of Maruku, they have worked closely with management for decades. In recent years the couple have spent extended time based at Mutitjulu and participated in many exhibitions and carving demonstrations at Uluru as well as nationally and overseas. Lulu and Billy now take great pride in passing on their skills not only to their children but grandchildren as well.
