PETER B MORRISON | 'Awgad wapil (Lion Fish)' Drawing | Pen and ink on archival paperPeter 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 for many years, before he returned to his familys place Wug Village, Saint Pauls 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

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Ari sulam ka (calling on the rain)

The flames are huge

great grand parents and ancestors

Bats are one of the snakes’ favourite foods

Lorna Shaun

Layering the archival records of individuals who are documented in terms of their ‘preponderance of Aboriginal blood’ with the inked traces of that blood brings together the personal and the political in a manner that is more than a glib statement – it makes no bones about the systematic and official discrimination that underlies Australian history and the experience of generations of Aboriginal Australians

the fish of the reef and the shells and corals of the Coral Sea

Image size: 250mm x 390mm

Ian Potter Museum of Art

Boedhay doegam puyenu muynu ngagal uruyl woerathmik maluka

basically planar