MELISSA STANNARD | ‘Koala Mum and Bub – Phascolartctos Cincereus’ | Sterling silver brooch with patinaMelissa Stannard is a proud Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay, and Koama artist, researcher and poet, living on Kabi Kabi land on the Sunshine Coast. Melissa has completed a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, majoring in (JSO) jewellery and small objects in 2019, and undertook the Kungullanji Program under the supervision of the esteemed Dr Michelle Langley, during the summer of 2018 2019. She has a keen interest in nature and the environment,

patterns of repetition

Nazi reef lies to the north east of Mabuyag Island (just north of Badu Island) in the Western Torres Strait

she lives on the edge of a mangrove estuary in Cairns

His totems are the White Cockatoo

In the form of text

ETHEL THOMAS | 'Bijurr' | Painting / Synthetic Polymer on Linen | 2007 | 91 x 121 cm

He must have wondered

Collaborative printer: Bobbie Rueben

which was attached to the weapon

Jindirrbu (Willy-Wagtail) was its name

Syd is the respected president of our management committee

clay vessels have embodied the profound relationship between humankind and the earth