JOEL SAM | 'Wahoo Mackerel' | Linocut PrintJoel Sams family lives in Bamaga, Cape York, and originates from Saibai Island in the Torres Strait. Born on Thursday Island, he currently lives in Cairns, having finished his art studies in 2005 with a Diploma of Art from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Visual Arts Course at the Tropical North Queensland Institute of TAFE. Since then he has been developing an art practice and technical skills in the media of linocut, sculpture and etching. Joels

Etching printed in two colours from one plate with Chine Colle

BRIAN ROBINSON | 'Fretted shell 1' | Linocut | 2018 | H 37 x W 90cm

When the wind picks up and the seas are rough

designed to control Aboriginal people and deny them the civil rights extended to the rest of the population

and polishing compounds to create these hand made

acrylic on canvas

My friends

The sea is plentiful during Sageraw Thonar represented by the abundance of sea creatures across the turtle’s shell

binder medium and ochres on linen

using Filipino Balikbayan boxes as an analogy for migration

mso-pagination:widow-orphan

however the inspiration that the new environment of Australia offered artistically