Eddie Kneebone was born in 1947 on the 15th of June. He was the first and eldest the oldest of 14 Children. He loved with his family in the Goulburn Valley of Victoria. He belongs to the Pangerang tribe from the Bangerang region. Edie Kneebone's very proud of his race and expressed that through art. During his years of working as a park ranger he would quietly go around teaching young people of his cultural heritage.