PETER B MORRISON | 'Cooktown Orchid' | Drypoint etchingPeter Bertie Morrison was born on Thursday Island and grew up in Cairns. After he finished school, like many Torres Strait Islanders at the time, he moved to Western Australia to work on the railway, before he returned to his family's place Wug Village, Saint Paul's Community on Moa Island in the Western Island Cluster. "This is where I learnt our traditional customs, on the island. My mother is from Darnley Island and her tribal group is Zagareb,

which are the survival

” Taking this perspective as a starting point

MELISSA STANNARD | ‘Ibis – Threskiornithidae’ | 2023 | Lost wax carved and cast sterling silver pendant with patina | 8 (h) x 8 (w) cm | Baby on rear of pendant

I’m honouring my Great Grandmother Maude

The other paintings are about family and country

and currently in Cairns where she is reconnected with the tropics and her art practice reignited by the fragile beauty of tropical coastal environments

This is embodied in our ancestral heritage which requires respect for every living creature

SUE HEALEY & JUDD OVERTON | 'On View: Icons ELIZABETH CAMERON DALMAN OAM (born1934)' | Photographic print on rag paper | 60 (h) x 80 (w) cm

Clan: Ganggalu

interests and routines in Cairns on the east coast of a very large island

The Biyudh is grated to a pulp and then squeezed into a ball

Nephi is also a speaker of his traditional Girramay language