Elvis MoodyElvis Moody was born in 1955 at Northam Hospital in the West Australian Wheatbelt. He grew up in Toodyay where he went to school, played football and basketball. For most of his adult life, Elvis has enjoyed art. He started painting when he was 25 an carved emu eggs to pass the time away. While living in the Eastern States, Elvis met his wife and with her had a family of six children. A lot of his art has revolved around children. Elvis has done a lot of painting and art activities with children around the Perth area. Together with his wife, he was an artist with the Education Department. While his wife read books and sang songs, Elvis would do artwork and play the didgeridoo. They then became House Parents in the Christian Aboriginal Parent Directed School (CAPS) in Coolgardie. The boarding school was an initiative of Morgan Sercombe from the Brethren Church accepting Aboriginal students from the local community as well as communities in the Central Desert and Northern Territory Arnhem Land. They were there for 13 years. Sadly, his wife had cancer and she wanted to spend her last days back home over East, where she died. Elvis also had cancer but never told his wife. He survived and came back to the West. Since then he has been caring for his 90-year-old mother and spending time with his brothers and cousins. Lately, Elvis has been painting totem poles, as well as his other art and has pieces on display in the Bilya Koort Boodja Centre for Nyoongar Culture and Environmental Knowledge located in the Shire of Northam. Read More Read Less