KAT HALL | ‘Speckle Medium Deep Bowl’ | Ceramic BowlIn a culture that strives for perfection, clay provides a perfect medium to let go of expectations and outcomes, and flow with the process. Thus allowing the work a voice of its own, with a result that could be considered imperfect, but which imbues each piece with a fresh, organic feel, reflecting the hand of the maker. Within the constant business of contemporary life, ceramics provides a pause a silence an opportunity to observe and reflect on what

which is highly significant in the Torres Strait

WE FOREGROUND THE IDEAS BEHIND THE WORK THAT WE PLATFORM — POSITIONING IT AS PROCESS-DRIVEN RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY CURIOUS OBSERVERS AND COURAGEOUS AGITATORS WHO SHAPE CULTURE THROUGH THE OUTCOMES OF THEIR LABOUR

BETTY WILLIAMS (NEE YARRAK) | ‘Mathali’ | 2019 |  Acrylic on Belgian linen | 40 X 50 cm

"This piece is about being strong and letting things happen without being touched by things that can be damaging or harmful to you

Koumans is one of Far North Queensland’s favourite artists

Peter Bertie Morrison was born on Thursday Island and grew up in Cairns

Edition limited

It is used in all of my work and contains my totem – the crocodile

and jewellery to share contemporary expressions of Torres Strait Islander culture and ancestral stories

Ruben Ambrym is of Kuku Yalanji and South Sea Islander heritage and has lived in Yarrabah all of his life

Her Aunty passed down her weaving skills

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