Wadeye (Port Keats) is a coastal Aboriginal Community located between Darwin and Kununurra in the Kimul region of Australia. It is one of the largest, most isolated and most recently introduced to European settlement in Australia. It is still relatively unknown throughout Australia, however that will soon change as its distinctive and unique artistic style becomes more recognised.

The most distinguishing features of the region’s unique bark paintings are a rhythmic and lyrical quality of line and form which stems from the meandering rivers and undulating coast line of the region. Representations of the abundant local flora and fauna and human figures are also a common feature of their paintings. A wavy or serpentine line replaces the geometric lines of the Arnhem Land style, and dots are often used, but usually in the form of lines rather than the fields of dots used by the Central Desert artists. The most common symbol is a central water-hole which is often surrounded in symmetric fashion by various depictions of Dreamtime figures, animal totems, rivers, weapons and artefacts, sacred symbols and ceremonial designs.