GLEN MACKIE | 'Waru-Kazi' | Vinyl-cut relief print"This print is about the baby turtle. 'Waru' mean turtle and 'Kaz' mean small or baby, and growing up on the island we would have Waru Kaz for pets. The kids in the city would have dog or cat for pets but we would have baby turtle. We would grow them up till they become too big for our dish then we would let them go at the edge of the reef. Sometimes we will cry because we would give them names and let them go, but we would find new baby turtle and it

” - Kat Hall

KAT HALL  | ‘Heaven’  | 2025 | Ceramic | H 3 x W 8 cm

The craftsmen making the drums on the Islands are passing on the wonderful skills of carving as well

the air was silent and still

KAT HALL  | ‘Mars’ | 2025 | Ceramic | H 2 x W 10

This style of timber rainforest shield is carved from hardwood was used in conjunction with the bagur (sword) to settle arguments during a brun (gathering)

It also extends to the use of any intellectual property of associated clans or tribes

and learned those languages

This print is one in a series of works that looks at the juxtaposition of Torres Strait lifestyle with motifs and mythology from classical Renaissance art

I was born on Bentinck Island at a place on the Northern side called Bilmee

5 (h) x 38

Brian ROBINSON  'Tough and Ruggered'