As a Wadi Wadi, Yorta Yorta and Ngarrindgeri artist, Aunty Glenda Nicholls grew up around the Swan Hill area. Glenda watched her mother and Grandmother make feather flowers and do basket weaving. Her cultural name is Jule Yarra Minj (‘little river girl’) and her maternal Ngarrindjeri totem is the Writcharuki (willy-willy wagtail). She is a master weaver, constructing elaborate sculptural works that connect the present with her ancestral past. She applies cultural weaving techniques acquired from her ancestors alongside knowledge of the waterways, plants and grasses on her Country.
She believes in generational family storylines, as it shares these traditions with future generations. Her work is represented in the Koorie Heritage Trust Collection along with those of her mother and grandmother.