AMY LOOGATHA | ‘My Country II’ | Painting / acrylic on Belgian linen"My Country is behind Ninyilki, this is where I was born on a saltpan under the ti trees. You can see Sweers Island from here. My Father, King Alfred, was dragging grass across the sea with his other wives, to catch fish. He didn't know I was coming. It was my Aunty who ran to let my Father know. My Grandmother delivered me, she was the one that cut my cord with a special shell. They thought I would be a boy because I was so big in my Mother's tummy.

"The men folk paint up their body before they dance in a corroboree

They are also known to be the best and most skillful hunters as well as composers and dance choreographers

Brian’s traditional ties to the Community are Yindji

" Then she got fire sticks and bark

An accomplished Seafarer with a Degree in Nautical Science and 20 years of innumerable sea miles crossing oceans

they never met

The red clay of the salt pan was once used by our old people

Artist: John Williams

Gooreng Gooreng and South Sea ancestry

and regularly exhibits and supplies art to The NorthSite Store

Image size: 122 x 176 mm

NATALIE LORENTZEN | ‘Summer Gingerbread Peeps’ | Gift Card set / pack of 5