MYLENE HOLROYD | 'Saratoga and Crab' | Linocut Print"I am a Kugu & Thaayorre woman. My ancestors connect me to this place. I speak four Indigenous languages and English. My father is Wik liyanh (fresh water people) from the upper Holroyd River. My mother is Kugu Munhin (salt water people) from north Holroyd River. Both of my parents were born in the bush. My dad worked in the stockyard before he met my mum. He worked as a drover for no wages, just food. Mum worked in the old hospital cooking for the

“This is the scales of the Rainbow Serpent

She kept asking him

it wraps you in a warm

He grew up in Pormpuraaw and learned the Thaayorre  language of the traditional owners

urban Australian society

and pair with almost anything

painting with acrylics

"Nature's creation

of other creators and their works

ethnobotanist

"Yuk Yauman is the Language name for the digging stick story

He writhes in agony