2024 ARTISTS
ABBEY-LEE SLEEP
I describe myself as an intuitive acrylic painter who is fascinated by colour and movement throughout each of my artworks. My paintings are inspired by Australian wildflowers and vibrant colours that are found every day, and flora that surrounds my country home growing up in regional Victoria. I currently practice still-life expressionist paintings that feature vintage ceramics and botanical. When I feel like adding stepping away from the structure, I enjoy painting large abstract canvases, that are a dance of layers, and flowing lines and gum leave silhouettes that express emotion more than a subject.
ALDONA KMIEC
Aldona Kmieć is a Polish-born Australian photographic artist based in Melbourne. Growing up on a farm in Poland, she developed a deep connection to the land and the stories it holds. This connection has profoundly influenced her art practice dedicated to photography, installation, and mixed media.
Her twilight landscapes from the Wimmera series, portraying the stark dryness of Lake Hindmarsh, are devoid of human presence yet resonate deeply with an unspoken emotional bond to the land. Her recent work Veil explores long-exposure photography through laboriously repeated bodily movements, layered with vibrant compositions of colour.
Aldona is the winner of Linden Postcard Show - The Fitzroy St Traders Play Award (2024), winner of Public Choice Award Eureka Prize Ballarat Arts Foundation (2023), finalist of multiple Head On Portrait Awards; finalist Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize (2024), CLIP Landscape Award (2024), Bowness Photography Prize (2014), and has been shortlisted to The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize (2024) in London. Her work has been exhibited widely in Australia and UK, and is held in private collections worldwide.
BRENDA MANGALORE
Brenda began her professional creative life as a graphic designer for one of the biggest greeting card companies in the world, where she nurtured her love of colour and composition. However, 4 years into her dream design career her inner calling to paint could not be silenced. Leaving her career behind, she had her first solo exhibition in 2011 and boldly launched her new life as a visual artist in full colour. Brenda's work is a dance of colour, soul & imagination. Sometimes they whisper an invitation to explore its hidden details. Sometimes they are a chaotic story of struggle as the abstract nature battle with organic & figurative forms. Shaped by change, experimentation & questions raised in her musings & meditations, Brenda also credits her past life as a designer in the creative process. "The depth and subtlety of colours, play of pattern and detail are born from my designer instincts... purposely designed to evoke visual & emotional reactions." On the other hand, Brenda also depends on her intuition and the inspiration of the moment to take over. Allowing the painting to emerge naturally, often changing course along the way. Applying multiple layers of free flowing colour with organic shapes, patterns and symbols. Like a memory of a dream filtered by emotions & intuition. It's secrets & history revealed only to those who pause to have a closer look.
CANDY NG
Candy Ng is a Melbourne Fine Art Artist, Live Event Illustrator who love expressing her work in a lively, playful and painterly way. Growing up in Hong Kong, the city that never sleeps, she came from an urban environment surrounded by high rise buildings. When she was a kid, she used to create art with her dad and always have been a creative person. After moving to Melbourne, she finds her new environment inspiring and develops a unique perspective that she incorporates into all her artworks. Candy’s work portrays the raw and authentic feelings towards the subjects she paints. Furthermore, she enjoys using bold colours and expressive brush strokes to reflect joy and freedom, while she continuously experimenting in different mediums and subjects. Currently her favourite medium is oil paints and she is exploring still life paintings, where she captures precious items and moments in life, through her paintings to relive the happiness and experience while painting it. She believes art should be engaging, apart from creating in the studio, she is also a live event illustrator, fashion illustrator, engraver, western and Chinese calligrapher. She collaborated with close to 30 international luxury brands, such as Prada, YSL, Jo Malone London, Dior, Tiffany, Montblanc, Balenciaga, bringing her artistic vision to their live events and creative projects. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and displayed across Australia, including Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane.
CARLA ZAMMIT
Carla Zammit is a distinguished name in the art world, with a remarkable career that began with traditional studies in Portraiture & Fine Art including completing her Bachelor of Arts in 2001. Her exceptional talent was showcased as an entrant for the Archibald Prize in 2019 with her acclaimed piece, “C’est La Me”. Since then, Carla’s artistic journey has evolved towards a realm of abstract calmness—a pursuit that, while it may appear effortless, demands a profound mastery of capturing emotions on canvas. Carla is the upcoming Resident Artist at Satara Living (launching October 17) and currently exhibiting Abstract Original works at Gallery Exhibitions in Victoria and SA until the end of the year.
Her work has garnered attention from prestigious publications including The Design Files, Grand Homes Australia, Dream Homes on Channel 7, and with Vogue Magazine 'Wardrobe Diaries' Editor, Kate Bucceri. We are thrilled to have Carla join us for this year’s fair, bringing her unique warmth and evocative style to the event. Her ability to translate feelings into art is truly inspiring, and we’re confident that her presence will be a highlight of the fair.
CARMEL COSGROVE
Carmel Cosgrove is a multidisciplinary artist and has been a resident of Seddon and Yarraville since 2001. Studying Fine Arts with Honours at RMIT she has been a finalist in various arts prizes including the Gallipoli Art Prize, Environmental Art and Design Prize and the John Leslie Art Prize. Notably, she was the overall winner of the 2023 Show Your West-Side Art Exhibition and Prize in Footscray and the 2006 Tattersalls Contemporary Art Prize at the Substation Arts Centre in Newport. Carmel has participated in numerous group shows and held her most-recent solo exhibition at SOL Gallery in Fitzroy in 2023. Additionally, this year Carmel was selected participant for the Atelier Artist in Residence program at Westcove Estate in Ireland.
CATHERINE MACKAY
Through the interplay of colour, texture, and experimentation, my artistic journey unfolds. A deep-seated passion for paint and exploration propels my creativity. Drawing inspiration from my familial and environmental surroundings, my recent artistic endeavours delve into the intersection of domestic spaces and the natural world, pondering our capacity to thrive in symbiosis. My aim is to cast a spotlight on the beauty of nature and advocate for a sustainable tomorrow. Formally, my artistic odyssey commenced in 1991 at Deakin University, where I pursued Fine Arts with a specialisation in painting. Over the years, I've broadened my skill set with an Associate Diploma in Engineering, as well as studies in jewellery-making and silversmithing. Additionally, I've attained a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. For the past 15 years, I've been immersed in the field of education, both in secondary and vocational realms, fuelled by a fervent dedication to nurturing creativity, critical thinking, and exploration through the arts.
CHALIE MACRAE
Chalie MacRae is a self-taught contemporary abstract artist living and working in Yarraville, Naarm. Chalie developed a long-term love for art after travelling abroad as a young adult. However, it wasn’t until mid-career as an intelligence analyst that she returned to creative practices seeking a more mindful and fulfilling path through art.
Inspired by nature’s power and beauty, Chalie intertwines landscape elements and emotion into her practice. Her works evoke a sense of calm, freedom and connection to self and nature, and explore the beauty and profound depth within the landscape. Chalie gravitates towards a nature-inspired colour palette and works in a gestural style with acrylics and oils which she finesses while bringing works to life. She continues to evolve her abstract works which are heavily influenced by her love of hiking Australia's coastlines and hinterlands.
Exhibiting in numerous exhibitions, Chalie’s works are held in private collections nationally and internationally, and she is continually commissioned by art collectors and interior designers within Australia and abroad. Her works have been featured on Australian TV shows such as Open Homes Australia, The Block and Sunrise 7, and in Australian print publications including Home Beautiful and Inside Out.
In 2023, Chalie spent time away from her art practice to transform an industrial-style warehouse in Yarraville into her studio gallery. Chalie continues to practice and show her work directly and through her stockists in Victoria and Queensland, Australia.
DAVE BEHRENS
I commenced painting in acrylics in 2002 to explore the theme of identity. It’s a theme that investigates the identity of self predominately, yet I am drawn to the concept of identity in others. I use mark making and pattern forming to express these ideas of identity. There’s an intention to use colours and associations to commit ideas to address this expression. The process of identity can be creative or destructive, yet my purpose is to be creative & positive, using known concepts and mixing them with unique attributes to form positive outcomes. There is often a cheeky and lighthearted tone in my works. I’m influenced by ancient cultures, science fiction and popular culture and how these influences use ideas and elements to be identifiable. I have undertaken a journey of self-discovery through my art practice and from that journey, come the expression of the energy of colour and movement in the form of my art. My intention is to draw the viewer in to explore my works and to interpret as they view it.
GARY SMITH
Gary Smith grew up in the industrial town of Geelong on the Bellarine Peninsular of Victoria. He developed an early fascination with the flare from the oil refinery chimney and the local industrial landscape.
His canvases are infused with a splendour, opulence, dignity, stateliness, and majestic sumptuousness beyond their original status. The work-a-day grunge of refineries, distilleries, bridges, oilrigs, silos and storage tanks is disguised and imbued with a romantic vision and disguise. These industrial entities hover on the edge of recognition. Rows of silos appear as colonnades in a vast cathedral. Storage tanks masquerade as mystic spheres of possibility; as orbs, globes and shrines or pavilions of desire.
An alchemical combination of traditional glaze painting techniques combined with contemporary image application technologies transforms the everyday constructions into enigmatic, veiled, oblique structures with hazy focal ambiguity. Each of Gary Smith’s works is created with multiple layered applications of lustrous paint glazes and pigment which impart a pearlescent sheen to the surfaces. When combined with the sense of light and distance it gives a cinematic cast to the paintings.
Gary Smith’s technique has grown from his earlier series of ‘evocations of atmosphere’, that he developed from tiny fragments from the skies of nineteenth century romantic landscapes and his explorations of Western landscape painting and its relationship to Japanese scroll painting. Despite its underlying industrial imagery, his subsequent bodies of work are still aligned with this reductive approach to landscape and retain the stillness and Oriental ‘sensibility’ and silkiness of surface that is distinctive of his oeuvre.
Having completed a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Fine Arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Gary Smith went on to complete a Masters of Philosophy in Visual Arts at the Australian National University.
Gary Smith has been a practicing artist since the mid 1980’s and has exhibited his work extensively in both solo and group exhibitions. He has been a finalist in a number of significant art prizes including the Archibald Prize (2012), the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize (2012), the John Fries Memorial Prize (2010), the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize (2009), and the Albany Art Prize (2009).
His work can be found in both public and private collections around Australia including the Victorian Education Department collection and the Artbank collection.
KENITA LEE McCARTNEY
My name is Kenita-Lee McCartney a proud Boon Wurrung Nari Nari Wemba Wemba Wotjiboluk Wiradjuri women. I’m a proud mum of 3 children, an artist for 10+ years. I’m an acrylic artist and founder of my own brand.
KRISTÝNA DOSTÁLOVÁ
My name is Kristýna Dostálová , and I am a Melbourne-based artist. My works have been featured in several national exhibitions and on television. My most recent work showcases Sydney and Melbourne ocean pools, Australian landscapes, seascapes, and colourful abstracts of local parks and waterways. I grew up in a small mining town in the Czech Republic, near the border of Poland. It was a depressing and drab city with repetitive grey buildings. From a young age, I painted colourful pieces to escape the dreariness of the city. My mum recognised my talent and encouraged me by enrolling me in junior art school. After moving to Australia in 2013, I began painting every day. The Australian flora, fauna, and landscape were incredibly inspiring, and I started to express this inspiration on canvases. It felt like Australia awakened the part of me that used to paint as a child in the Czech Republic. As I created more art, I began receiving commissions from people around me. My art career grew organically, and after selling a few pieces, I decided to pursue it professionally. It has since become my full-time pursuit. I typically use both oil and acrylic on canvas, often combining other mediums to create a three-dimensional texture and look, especially in my ocean pools and cliffs. I love the textures and visceral nature of the paint; it’s a powerful way to express my feelings on canvas. Since relocating to Sydney, I have been inspired by the tropical landscapes, ancient rock formations, ocean pools, and diverse flora, which have all captured my creative eye. My style is often described as abstract. When painting abstract pieces, I dive deep into colours and textures, allowing my hand to guide the process without overthinking it. It’s a form of freedom, but I hesitate to define myself solely as an abstract artist since I love to paint anything that inspires me. Art is very therapeutic for me. I aim to express myself and communicate with people through my art, evoking emotions and sharing my experiences. Creating art is an expression of my thoughts, emotions, and desires, and it's about sharing the way I experience the world.
LARISSA TAYLOR
My name is Larissa Taylor, I currently live in Ballan Victoria, working part time as a secondary art teacher as well as enjoying my own practice as a ceramic sculptor and mixed media artist. I studied at RMIT completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts; drawing major and printmaking minor, a Diploma of Fine Art; painting major and a Diploma of Education. My work explores our relationship with our environment, the flora and fauna we share. To this end I investigate the forms, colours and textures that surround me. I currently exhibit with Mudwood Studio, Heathcote; Sequel Gallery in Geelong and OxArt Taradale.
LINDSAY DOUGLAS
Lindsay lives in the Western Suburbs of Melbourne finding it a rich source of inspiration, both as an architect and as an artist. He finds great satisfaction in running his architectural practice Dig Design and the opportunity it opens up for him to balance his interests in art, design and the built environment. As an architect Lindsay has an in depth awareness of the role he plays in shaping suburban form, both as built environment professional and as member of his community. With over 20 years in architecture, his love of putting pen to paper has never waned, and he continues to use this medium to capture and record his observations of the human influence and impact on the built form. Through his artwork Lindsay is looking to promote discussion around good design and the suburban mediocrity … highlighting the beauty and the value of good design within our uniquely Australian suburban lives. Capturing moments from in and around Melbourne's Inner West. Founding Dig Design in 2002, Lindsay has forged a very successful career in architecture. He is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects, former president of the Building Designers Association of Victoria (now Design Matters National) and former president of the National Association of Building Designers. When not putting pen to paper for architecture or art, Lindsay can be found out on the golf course or practicing his golf swing.
LOUISE SALMON
Inspired by the joy of the native wildlife here in Australia, I am a UK born, Melbourne based mixed media artist. I explore the landscape and foliage through colour and texture. My background is as a textile designer for the fashion industry and I balance my time creating prints for high street brands and painting artworks in my studio. I like to weave textile design elements such as simple geometric patterns into my paintings and I often collage back flowers to build up layers. I love the contrast of a bright neon shape next to delicate soft native flowers. I see the vibrancy everywhere!
MANDY COUZENS
Mandy is an art, food, lifestyle and travel photographer. An avid adventurer with a love of dragging the family into the great outdoors, but also disappearing underwater to capture the magic of what lies beneath, or maybe hiding away in her sun drenched backyard bungalow artistically shooting food and drinks at her home in Altona. Her white Staffy Frenchie cross - Dusty, is never far from her side and can even sometimes be found sniffing around in some of her lifestyle photography. Mandy loves natural light, florals, the ocean, fancy liquor bottles and eating the food she shoots.
MARIA RADUN
Maria, born in Crimea and raised in Australia from the age of 10, has been drawn to art from a young age. Influenced by European art’s principles of beauty and integrity. she later pursued formal training, earning a BFA from Monash University and studying under traditional painters to master classical oil painting techniques.
Her work, primarily nature-inspired, reflects a deep and intuitive observation of the world. Maria’s mastery of brushwork and light creates realistic yet subtly complex compositions, leaving a lasting impression on viewers.
Maria is dedicated to perfecting her craft and sees her art as a counterpoint to the fast-paced modern world. Her paintings invite viewers to pause, appreciate the beauty in everyday moments, and find a sense of home in the present.
MARIJA BASIC
Marija’s work intersects analogue, digital, and design practices. With over 20 years of experience in creative commercial design, advertising and project management, Marija brings a wealth of experience to her craft. Her artistry spans painting, digital mediums, and interior design, blending fine art with commissioned projects. With a Bachelor of Multimedia Design from Swinburne University, she specialises in printed aluminium and acrylic perspex surfaces, infusing hand-painted gestures with digital manipulation. Marija’s art is inspired by nature and autobiographical life events. Many of her paintings feature forms that are reminiscent of oceans or mountain landscapes. She is available for commissions and collaborations. She works with trade, corporate and individual clients to create artworks for commercial and residential settings.
MARK FORBES
Best known for his considered and atmospheric documentary photography of street scenes, urban landscapes and structures, Mark Forbes employs film as his medium of choice for personal documentary work - using predominantly traditional medium format cameras.
Forbes' approach to photography comes from an underlying fascination with people and their interaction with the environment. He has an uncanny knack for bringing personality to the ordinary.
Forbes' debut monograph Collected Memories was published by the German publisher Hatje Cantz in 2023. Shortly after printing, a book signing event was held at Paris Photo 2023. The book was a shortlisted finalist at PHOTO 2024 in the Australian & New Zealand Photobook of the Year.
He was the winner of The Gomma Grant 2019 (best colour photograph), the two time winner of the OptiKA Photographic Award (2024, 2020), the runner-up in the 2021 Head On Portrait Award, 2nd place in the IPA Professional Analog Fine Art category (2024, 2022) and has been a finalist in many renowned Art Prizes including the Blake Prize, Olive Cotton Award, Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art, CLIP Award, Lake Art Prize, Footscray Art Prize, Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize, Lethbridge Landscape Prize, Lethbridge Art Award, Wyndham Art Prize, Stanthorpe Art Prize, Photo Lucida Critical Mass and the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize (semi-finalist).
His images were also featured at Leica HQ in Wetzlar during the M6 launch event as part of their ‘Celebration of Photography’. His work has been exhibited widely in Australia, and is held in public & private collections locally and internationally.
MATTHEW SIMPSON
Matthew Simpson I am a visual artist with a hidden disability. My work for the past few years has concentrated on the possibilities of form and patterns that emerge through a process of repeated addition of lines placed by chance and intuition. Works evoke natural rhythms and celebrate the process of painting, embracing changes, accidents, and discoveries made along the way
MICHAELA SANDBERG
Michaela Sandberg, known professionally as MÁS, is a multidisciplinary artist working from Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Through the amalgamation of disparate elements, her work seeks to merge the traditional with the neoteric, the human with the ethereal, and the intimate with the monumental. Practising photography, fine art, and graphic design in both analogue and digital forms, she employs an ever-expanding range of mediums to construct her work. With curiosity and playfulness, she embraces the exclusive opportunity of each medium independently, while exploring the limitless potential for harmony and synthesis between them.
NADINE HOBSON
Melbourne based artist Nadine Hobson is a lifelong creative and self confessed perpetual daydreamer. Drawing inspiration from the Dandenong Ranges where she grew up, Nadine creates textured abstracts that reflect natures colour palettes, while also emitting a dreamlike quality - and as such, fondly refers to her paintings as ‘dreamscapes’. Emotive and immersive, there are many tiny details to discover within each piece. This is a result of applying many layers of texture, paint and ink which gives great depth and complexity to the finished works.
SARAH LUGTON
Sarah Lugton creates contemporary abstract paintings from her studio gallery in Williamstown North, land of the Yalukit-willam of the Kulin nation. She has a Bachelor of Arts, Jewellery and her Masters in teaching. As a self-taught painter, Sarah’s compositions use shape, line, colour, texture and value to create a visual language that conveys emotion and meaning. Sarah is an intuitive painter who describes the process of mark making on canvas as “flowing through her rather than from her”. Nostalgic memories, personal experiences, music, literature and people in her life fuel her work. She internalises these aspects of her life and imbues them with meaning and emotion. She then translates these onto canvas with layers of colour and movement with gestural brushstrokes. Remnants of her life influences can sometimes be seen in elusive shapes and patterns in her work, creating a symbolic language, a personal dialogue between you and her. Sarah hopes to create an intimacy in her work where you feel drawn in and see a part of yourself reflected in the work.
STEVE LEADBEATER
I’ve exhibited my work since the early ‘90s, but I’ve been drawing my whole life. It’s what kept me out of trouble while growing up in the suburbs. My work is driven by contrasts — identity and anonymity, sensitivity and brutality, spirit and form. I want it to reflect the immense power, vulnerability and mystery of being human — while retaining a playful naivety. When I’m creating I get lost in a ritual of the senses. I see flashes of shapes and colours, it’s like music is passing through me, the aromas of paint and incense hang in the air, I sip tea and I feel surfaces and materials collide as marks are made. I’m always trying to capture and share that energy. A work isn’t complete until someone else has encountered it. Although I have a reputation for polarising audiences with dangerous work, I’m not out to shock. I’m out to connect. I’m grateful to both the supporters and opposers of my work. Without them my practice wouldn’t be the cathartic experience I continually crave.
SYYPHER
SYYPHER is a super-flat, neon pop artist whose subject matter depicts childhood cartoons and characters that will help the audience reconnect with their inner child. Their acrylic paintings are done on a range of materials, including canvases, skateboards and wood. With bold, crisp colours, recognisable and fun subject matter, and a "neon" effect which is bound to catch your eye, SYYPHER is quickly becoming an artist people recognise! And if all that wasn't enough to get your nostalgia tingling, all of SYYPHERs pieces are named after songs which SYYPHER loves and connects with these scenes and characters. The ultimate cartoon lovers paradise, SYYPHER is sure to have an affordable piece that you'll love regardless of whether a seasoned collector or just after something colourful.
TAMARA RUSSELL
Tamara is a Textile Artist and passionate advocate of sustainable living specialising in free machine embroidery, hand stitching and mending. In her textile practice, she explores her surroundings interpreting what she sees in embroidery. Her work has been exhibited in the United Kingdom, Canada, Netherlands and Australia. Tamara’s practice engages with the natural environment recreating images and shapes in her embroidered works in 2 and 3D form. In her work she is able to portray social issues including environment, climate change and the treatment of asylum seekers. Textiles are the perfect medium for expressing thoughts using hand and machine stitching. Tamara works with found materials and finds joy in the unexpected uses that can be found for them. She loves this unpredictability and enjoys the inventiveness necessary to transform them. She uses materials that are reclaimed, things with a history that have been discarded and might otherwise end up in landfill. In creating her Textile Kintsugi pieces Tamara uses the principles of Kintsugi, a Japanese repair method, as a process to recreate discarded ceramics. Using reclaimed textiles, many hand-dyed, to wrap broken pieces and reassemble them with stitch, enhancing the breaks. As with Kintsugi the aim is to celebrate the imperfections, recreating the ceramic to become more interesting for its irregularities giving the object a new lease of life that becomes more refined thanks to its ‘scars’. Tamara was invited to Curtain Springs for a residency in 2019, a finalist in the John Villiers Art Prize 2021 and the Australian Textile Art Award 2022 along with exhibiting in group and solo exhibitions. Her recent projects include facilitating the Moreland Quilt in 2017 - a community arts project, exhibiting in Melbourne galleries and teaching workshops in hand embroidery, free machine embroidery, mending skills and garment reinvention. She also accept commissions to mend other people’s favourites Tamara’s work has been exhibited in the United Kingdom and Australia. She is founder of the Naarm Textile Collective, curating their bi-annual exhibitions, a member of the Embroiderers Guild Victoria, Society for Embroidery Work (S.E.W.), Craft Victoria and Melbourne & Victorian Arts Inc (MAVA). Her work has been featured in Textile Fibre Forum, Fibre Arts, The Age and Machine Embroidery & Textile Art magazine.
TARA CULL
An emerging artist with a multifaceted background in the creative industry, my journey is characterised by a blend of design expertise, education and multimedia. With over ten years experience in landscape architecture and design, enriched by a stint teaching English through art in France, my career has taken a diverse path. Living in France for 5 years sparked an interest in Urban sketching and Street Art and two important things emerged: 1. It encouraged me to look around me, explore and turn the places I visited into artistic memories through urban sketching and painting the details that intrigued me. 2. I realised how much I missed the amazing wildlife of my own country, in particular the colourful birds. In 2023, I ventured into mural art, driven by a passion to integrate my artistic talents with community enhancement and cultural expression. My approach to mural art is driven by a conviction that art can bridge communities. In 2024, my objective is to enhance my confidence by introducing, exhibiting, and selling my artwork for the first time in a professional setting.
TIFFANY HUNTER
Tiffany Hunter is a Taungurung woman from East Victoria, an Artist at Tiffany Hunter Studio & Director, and Lead Counsellor at Nerdu Badji Education. With over 12 years ‘experience in the education and employment sector. Tiffany has recently picked up the brushes to tell stories through art and the expression of colours. Tiffany is a strong believer in moving forward with the impacts of the significant events impacting Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people through facilitated programs, mentoring & art to assist people with breaking the cycle of transgenerational trauma. Tiffany’s strong message to the wider community is that “By coming together to acknowledge but also understand & empathise with our people and walk the journey in partnership to create a brighter future for the next generations to come. It was only three Generations ago that my grandfather was forcibly removed from his mother, the impacts of this were detrimental for my community. It is time to walk hand in hand and make the changes necessary for tomorrow!”