Rex Winston was born in 1968 in Sydney, NSW and belongs to the Kamilaroi language group. Winston was adopted by a white family at three months of age and grew up at Nyngan, a farming community in central Western NSW. Winston's interest in his birth mother and Aboriginal heritage was sparked when he first began painting. With the support of his adoptive parents and a government agency he was able to locate and meet his birth mother and it was only a couple of years ago that he also met his Aboriginal father. Rex has never had any formal art training. He is an established commercial contemporary Aboriginal artist who has undertaken numerous commissions with works being held in several private collections. Rex has been a finalist in the NSW Parliament Indigenous Art Prize every year since it started except for 2006 and was commended in 2010. Rex’s contemporary paintings are a unique response to his environment and landscape, expressed through an innate skill for precise dot markings.