Artwork From The Torch – Issue No. 5
Four new artworks from First Nations artists
BS (Gunditjmara) ‘Reconnection’ 2024, Acrylic on canvas
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Bora Ground Corroboree
By Brendan H
Gunaikurnai/Kurnai/Gunditjmara
2024
This painting shows how two different people from two different tribes can unite in harmony without conflict. The outer circles represent a Bora Ground (dance circle) for each person. The centre Bora Ground is where they unite to form one corroboree together, to stop conflict. The footprints represent each person who is forming a resolution for Future Dreaming.
Life's Sun
By B.Charles
Palawa
2024
This painting represents the sun, the sun comes out everyday and makes living that much better. To me it, doesn't matter what you have done in the past. To me, as long as the sun comes up again, you will always have another day to begin bettering yourself, and fixing all the wrongs you have done in the past.
Family Ties
By Ben D
Barkindji
2024
The cross-hatching inside the snake represents me, my partner and our seven children. The dots symbolise our many memories and hardships, hard times throughout our struggles. Now we are one, just like this snake as it moves onto much better times, with no worries, free from imprisonment. Our lives can now move forward as the travelling snake does.
Bora Ground Corroboree
By Brendan H
Gunaikurnai/Kurnai/Gunditjmara
2024
This painting shows how two different people from two different tribes can unite in harmony without conflict. The outer circles represent a Bora Ground (dance circle) for each person. The centre Bora Ground is where they unite to form one corroboree together, to stop conflict. The footprints represent each person who is forming a resolution for Future Dreaming.
Life's Sun
By B.Charles
Palawa
2024
This painting represents the sun, the sun comes out everyday and makes living that much better. To me it, doesn't matter what you have done in the past. To me, as long as the sun comes up again, you will always have another day to begin bettering yourself, and fixing all the wrongs you have done in the past.
Family Ties
By Ben D
Barkindji
2024
The cross-hatching inside the snake represents me, my partner and our seven children. The dots symbolise our many memories and hardships, hard times throughout our struggles. Now we are one, just like this snake as it moves onto much better times, with no worries, free from imprisonment. Our lives can now move forward as the travelling snake does.
I’m Proud to Say I’m an Aboriginal Man
By Matthew
I’m sick of doing crime, I’m sick of doing jail. It’s time to put pen to paper, and send this in the mail.
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ISSUE NO. 20
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Artwork From The Torch – Issue 20
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Two new artworks from First Nations artists.
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ISSUE NO. 20
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Impact of Jail Time on Aboriginal People
By Geoff
Being in a space that does not acknowledge, respond to or understand you can be deeply challenging.
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Walking on History: Sharing Culture and Country
By the Teelack Brothers
It all has a history. So just take a second to think on how old that could be and where it came from or even who or how it could have got there.
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