COLLECT

European institutions policy of collecting and storing objects of human remains of Australia’s first peoples has a long dark history that has been hidden for many decades. This series illuminates on the stolen remains of female divers along the coast of Broome where women young and old were forced to dive for the largest pearl

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EMBRACE

Desert River Sea – Portraits of the Kimberley

SCAR TWO

NATIVE

What is being NATIVE and how does a NATIVE person see the world? The landscape talks to us through colours and texture far beyond what the untrained eye can see – through the shift in colours in the sky and water, the contrast from land to sea and the emotional connection to country. Being NATIVE

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Gujarra Ngurnu (Two Sisters)

Gujarra Ngurnu (two sisters), one of Rumarra (day) and one of Ngurra (night), mimic each other’s movements from the setting sun to the rising moon with the stars above mapping their expansive wings in the night sky that over time creates a ripple effect that changes the seasons on the land below. One cannot ­­­live

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Australiyaniality

245t

245T (Agent Orange) In the early 1970s the WA Agriculture Protection Board hired more than 300 men to eradicate the weeds, Noogoora Burr and Parkinsonia, that were affecting livestock across northern WA. The herbicide the men were spraying contained the now-banned substance 245T – an ingredient in the defoliant Agent Orange. ‘Agent Orange’ legacy continues to

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