Eboney Jade Hall was born in Wollongong in 1990 and raised by her grandmother, Rita, who also raised her mother, Maryanne. She spent her early childhood by the coast before moving at the age of eight to a farm just outside of Bombala, in Snowy River country.

Her upbringing was grounded in hard work, discipline, and care, and she holds deep love for both the family who raised her and the family she was born into. A significant shift came at 18 with the loss of her foster father, marking the beginning of a more complex and personal journey.

Eboney’s practice today is deeply connected to identity, belonging, and healing. While her childhood was filled with love, growing up away from her ancestral country and community has had a lasting impact.  In her adult years, she returned to Broken Hill to reconnect with her family and begin rebuilding those relationships.

Navigating the space between two families, Eboney has often felt a sense of not fully belonging. This, alongside struggles with identity and mental health in her early adulthood, has shaped both her life and her work.

Now a mother of three daughters, everything she does is guided by them. Her work and personal growth are grounded in a commitment to breaking cycles and creating a different future—one shaped by strength, connection, and understanding.

Now approaching two years of sobriety, Eboney channels her experiences — both light and heavy — into her art. Her work reflects an ongoing journey of understanding, reconnection, and honouring every version of herself that led her here.

Untrained, and using modern materials to transliterate her memories of country into transcendentally beautiful artworks of startling depth, Eboney is developing a distinctive style of her own that blends some of the characteristics of central Australian art with a use of colour, form, lines, and perspective that makes her works unique.

The subjects of the paintings often focus on what is thought of now as “traditional” indigenous art: the fauna, the flora, the waterholes, rivers and landscapes of her remembered youth, often using unusual perspectives and imagery that combine to create her own style.