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.
Date Published
January 30, 2025
By Boom Gate Gallery
Most of the art featured at Boom Gate Gallery is made at Long Bay Gaol, with some coming from other prisons in NSW.
ISSUE NO. 26
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By Denham Sadler
You’ve probably heard of AFL legends Adam Goodes and Michael O’Loughlin. But what you might not know, is that they also started their own charity called the GO Foundation.
ISSUE NO. 26
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By NAAJA
NAAJA has a 50-year history of serving Aboriginal Territorians as they navigate the justice system.
ISSUE NO. 25
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By Denham Sadler
Tracy was one of many women released from prison straight into homelessness. Thanks to the Homeward Sisters program, Tracy was able to secure priority housing that meets her needs.
ISSUE NO. 24
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