Beginning his art career as a founding member of the Melbourne-based art collective Roar Studios in the 1980s, Wayne Eager has continued to involve himself with the support of grassroots Australian art communities. In the early 1990s he relocated with his wife, Marina, to Haasts Bluff, NT where he became involved with the establishment of the Ikuntji Women's Centre and later became Field Officer for the Papunya Tula Artists. He has always maintained a solitary approach to painting his surrounds of the desert bush yet continues to be inspired by the work of neighbouring indigenous art communities. His paintings are a careful consideration of the constantly changing desert landscape with a nod to Western art movements, namely Abstract Expressionism.

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