LORNA SHAUN | 'Minjil (Flames From a Big Fire)' | Painting / Acrylic & Dry Pigment on LinenLorna Shaun, Minjil (Flames from a big fire), 2020, 76. 2 cm x 76. 2cm, acrylic and dry pigment on linen. "Traditionally fire played a major role in our lives we used it for cooking, warmth, ceremonies and healing. Our traditional ways of managing the land used bush fires to keep our country clean, to preserve our ways of hunting and gathering food. Controlled burning created new growth from plants which made sure that plants regenerated and food

Torres Strait Islands

Keeping her identity within a modern and changing time

Family is important to me

Wadhuwamal wakay wiyan kayin zug ngurpayzi kawkuykul

The peripheral characters

Artwork story: Spiders of various kinds were totems of the traditional rainforest people of far north Queensland for thousands of years

Since then

with 3 fold out pages for extended views of iconic prints by Billy Missi

Paper type:  Hahnemuhle 300 gsm

Detail: Sterling silver wire

Araw Warul (2016) shows the turtles swimming in the ring tides during Sageraw Thonar

In this image fruit bats are munching out on mangoes at night