JACK WILKIE-JANS | 'Don’t Grab That Scabby Hand' | 2020 | Digital Photograph on Cotton Rag Paper | H 610 x W 610 mm"These pieces are created as discreetly as each heartbeat pulses. This body of work isnt the product of any grand characterbuilding exercise or alterego inventionIm no David Bowie. Though the works (made over the past five years) are connected and vital to one another, they remain separate all the same. Each had its own purpose at the moment it was created; I simply didnt pay much attention to what that purpose was at the time. In that sense, showing

My father taught me to dance

paying respect to the cultural continuum and envisioning a future

The designs shown on his body

'Warru Kaurr Adhy Kissai (Turtle egg totem - moon phases)'

Elizabeth River hugs his Country

Ngurupai wharf depicts one such method – the handline

‘Flower Tree’ is a grouping of three mangrove seedling chalice style tree structures symbolising community and regeneration from the tempest

Paper size 122cm H x 81cm W

WILLIAM SAVAGE | ‘Kulap (Gorr) shaker’ | Medium | Purple / yellow | Burney bean seed + rope

DEBRA MURRAY | 'Water Story' | 2011 | Screen print | Paper size: 40

and his nameplate can be seen in the James Cook Museum here in Cooktown

55 cm Diameter x 5 cm