YESTERDAYS WATERWAYS

45x60 cm, mixed media on canvas 

This piece attempts to acknowledge a time when rainforest, woodlands and wetlands painted the earth alongside the river.  Where the traditional owners hunted for bush rats and scrub turkeys, harvested waterlilies and used the tide to trap fish. Where ceremonial grounds, burial grounds and meeting places existed.

Many of the waterways, once ebbing from the river, no longer exist or have been diverted underground. Some of these creeks are represented in this piece, alongside lines, marks and textures that honour the camps, sacred grounds and walking tracks of our First Nations people.