GIRRINGUN ART CENTRE | 'Jawan T-shirt by Erica Muriata'  |  Black fabric / white design | Screenprint on cottonEstablished in 2008, the Girringun Art Centre is home to multi award winning artists and craftsmen. Located in Cardwell, Queensland, Girringun represents artists from nine Traditional Owner Groups: the Nywaigi, Gugu Badhan, Warrgamay, Warungnu, Bandjin, Girramay, Gulngay, Jirrbal and Djiru people. The traditional country of these groups covers some 25,000 square kilometres of country in the states far North. Objects from this country are significantly

Flinders University Museum of Art and Griffith University Art Museum

Artist Statement:

Images from her art also assist the sales of merchandise and products

for cultural advice and to talk about her work

you’re still carrying these stories and memories for a life-time

They brought their culture too

Queensland Art Gallery and Arts Queensland

and was a fearsome weapon which would stand nearly as high as the person who wielded it

The white and blue represents the fishtraps that arealong the river mouth that our family over the generations have built to feed our people with sea food

For a long time I would dream about the barramundi

Story: "This term translates along the line of

Nephi is also a speaker of his traditional Girramay language