MELODY WOODNUTT | 'Night Blooming Branches' | 2025 | Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Hemp paper / from cropped 16mm film still"'The Apparition' is a conjuring and ascension of spirit. It is a futile attempt to build her grandfather Franks unfinished boat which he was making out of love for his wife. Upon Frank's death, the massive boat frame stood as a 17m long, 9m wide bare skeleton unfinished for 40 years with no hull, having never seen the sea. The artwork thus becomes the boat's spectral fiction and a ghostly apparition. The Apparition conjures a siren's call from beyond

Spear fishing has its dangers as well

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when you reflect back and think how the word traveled to each Island

PEARL AND SALTY PLUM specializes in individually hand-crafted jewellery

Woodblock on bark cloth

My personal marking is also featured

Without our cultural knowledge of respect we would face great danger in our oceans

it draws you deeper into a world where passion and wild beauty meet

Zenadh Kes is our name for the Torres Strait Islands

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Both of my parents were born in the bush

Maharlina Gorospe-Lockie studied visual arts and anthropology and eventually worked in coastal zone management research in the Philippines