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ISSUE NO. 1

July 2024

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Artwork from The Torch – Issue No. 1

Since 2011 The Torch has been providing art, cultural and arts industry support to Indigenous offenders and ex-offenders in Victoria through its Indigenous Arts in Prisons and Community program.

Brendan H (Gunaikurnai/Kurnai/Gunditjmara) ‘Connecting to Country’ 2023, acrylic on canvas

Bunjil's Always There

By Artistic Dreaming

Ngarrindjeri / Palawa

2023

This is a story about connecting to community and Country, and how we are all connected. No matter where we're going or where we have been, we are all connected.

Flutter of Life

By Ricky J

Yorta Yorta

2023

This is my journey to connect to my children. Now they have given me a second chance of life, where we now have the love and the bonding. It's given us that journey to connect to our Country. It will keep the bond stronger with the father's love, with the love of his children.

Connecting to Country

By Brendan H

Gunaikurnai / Kurnai / Gunditjmara

2023

This is a story about connecting to community and Country, and how we are all connected. No matter where we're going or where we have been, we are all connected.

'Court' in a Trap

By C.Stewart

Wiradjuri

2023

'Court' in a Trap focuses on our justice system and how they can take something peaceful and criminalise it. The net represents our justice system that is always out to 'catch' something. The jellyfish represents any man going through life, transparent, beautiful, until the justice system finds him in their net. Similar to a jellyfish in a fishing net, the fisherman (the justice system) only focuses on the 'potential' danger and harm the jellyfish is capable of, completely ignoring the fact the jellyfish was just surviving, day by day, wave after wave.

Bunjil's Always There

By Artistic Dreaming

Ngarrindjeri / Palawa

2023

This is a story about connecting to community and Country, and how we are all connected. No matter where we're going or where we have been, we are all connected.

Flutter of Life

By Ricky J

Yorta Yorta

2023

This is my journey to connect to my children. Now they have given me a second chance of life, where we now have the love and the bonding. It's given us that journey to connect to our Country. It will keep the bond stronger with the father's love, with the love of his children.

Connecting to Country

By Brendan H

Gunaikurnai / Kurnai / Gunditjmara

2023

This is a story about connecting to community and Country, and how we are all connected. No matter where we're going or where we have been, we are all connected.

'Court' in a Trap

By C.Stewart

Wiradjuri

2023

'Court' in a Trap focuses on our justice system and how they can take something peaceful and criminalise it. The net represents our justice system that is always out to 'catch' something. The jellyfish represents any man going through life, transparent, beautiful, until the justice system finds him in their net. Similar to a jellyfish in a fishing net, the fisherman (the justice system) only focuses on the 'potential' danger and harm the jellyfish is capable of, completely ignoring the fact the jellyfish was just surviving, day by day, wave after wave.

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Roxann (Yorta Yorta/Gunaikurnai) ‘Birthing Journey’ 2024, acrylic on canvas

Artwork from The Torch – Issue No. 2

By The Torch

This represents a mother's journey of childbirth and the creation of her young through the pain endured throughout her and her children's journey.

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ISSUE NO. 2

2 MIN READ

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Ending Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

By Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service

This information from Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service explains the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and some ways we as a community can work towards ending deaths in custody. Our hearts go out to the families and loved ones of all those who have passed in custody.

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ISSUE NO. 4

8 MIN READ

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'Circle of Life' by Dylan, $350, #4959, 60cm x 75cm, acrylic on canvas, available to purchase at https://www.nsw.gov.au/arts-and-culture/boom-gate-gallery

I Feel Like I Belong

By Aaron

I am back in jail once again. I’m no stranger to jail. It would be my seventh or eighth sentence in ten years. I identify as an Indigenous man. I have since I was twenty, when my mother did the family tree. I never felt like I belonged until after following my family tree up and finding out I was from a mob in central NSW, Barkindji. I have never felt like I am where I am meant to be.

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ISSUE NO. 4

2 MIN READ

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J.Rozynski (Gunaikurnai) ‘My Journey #1’ 2023, acrylic on canvas

Artworks on Strength, Freedom and Spirit

By The Torch

Since 2011, The Torch has been providing art, cultural and arts industry support to Indigenous offenders and ex-offenders in Victoria through its Indigenous Arts in Prisons and Community program.

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ISSUE NO. 3

2 MIN READ

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