Harriette Bryant (b. 1969, Amata, APY Lands) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Mimili Community. She grew up across many communities—from Cundalee Mission near Kalgoorlie to Yalata, Pipalyatjara and Ooldea—finding early creative pathways and cultural connection through the art centres in each place. This movement across Country shaped a practice grounded in personal history, memory, and the resilience of Anangu storytelling.

After returning to Mimili in 1999, Harriette became a senior arts worker at Mimili Maku Arts. Her work is an ongoing rewriting of personal and cultural histories: an autobiographical assembling of family storylines, lived experience, humour, and archival or historical references. Across sculpture, installation, object-based assemblage, and mixed media, her practice critically reframes Australian history through an Anangu lens.

Harriette is particularly known for works that respond to the Maralinga and Emu Field nuclear bomb tests carried out in remote South Australia in the 1950s and 1960s. Her practice speaks to the intergenerational impacts of these events, making visible their human, cultural, and environmental consequences. By grounding national narratives in the lived reality of Anangu communities, Harriette’s work exposes the ongoing legacies of nuclear testing with clarity, wit, and cultural strength.

Her work is widely recognised and held in major public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australian War Memorial, and Maitland Regional Art Gallery.