DELISSA WALKER | 'Woven Round Earrings - Black/yellow/red ' - Medium | Kakan (Black Palm) / raffiaMy name is Delissa Walker Ngadijina. I am a Kuku Yalanji Master Weaver based in Cairns, Far North Queensland. I grew up in the Daintree rainforest with my mother and in Mosman with my grandmother. I come from a very large culturally active family. Most of my weekends as a child were spent traditionally hunting and gathering food, swimming and basket weaving. I learnt how to make dilly bags with my late grandmother Wilma Walker from a very young age. I

storms and air hoses tangled and cut from coral in unchartered waters was extremely risky as the luggers travelled slowly under a single fore-sail as the divers walked along the bottom filling baskets on hand lines with valuable pearl and trochus shell

"I grew up in Pormpuraaw

WILD THINGS | ‘Creel Thing(5)’ Large basket | Recycled + found objects / copper

Region: Yarrabah

I woke up the next day and rode my motorbike into a field of lightning bolts

A Buddha's Wife and the Now Project and several films with Sue Healey

His traditional name of Boiyool was given to him by his Aunt – it is the word for a piece of lawyer cane cut specifically to stir a non-lethal quantity of poison into waterholes when hunting fish

intrigue and curiosity…anticipation in the wake of change through the building of positive and optimistic views and plans for the future for all Indigenous people

bamboo sticks and the white feathers are usually from the white heron (Karrabai) bird

It was good to come and start painting at the Art Centre with Arnold before he passed away

3 (w) cm | Edition 1\1

It was a simple game which consisted only of throwing sticks at a target