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ISSUE NO. 5
November 2024
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Artwork From The Torch – Issue No. 5

Four new artworks from First Nations artists

Since 2011 The Torch has been providing art, cultural and arts industry support to Indigenous offenders and ex-offenders in Victoria through its Indigenous Arts in Prisons and Community program.

BS (Gunditjmara) ‘Reconnection’ 2024, Acrylic on canvas

Bora Ground Corroboree

By Brendan H
Gunaikurnai/Kurnai/Gunditjmara
2024

This painting shows how two different people from two different tribes can unite in harmony without conflict. The outer circles represent a Bora Ground (dance circle) for each person. The centre Bora Ground is where they unite to form one corroboree together, to stop conflict. The footprints represent each person who is forming a resolution for Future Dreaming.

Life's Sun

By B.Charles
Palawa
2024

This painting represents the sun, the sun comes out everyday and makes living that much better. To me it, doesn't matter what you have done in the past. To me, as long as the sun comes up again, you will always have another day to begin bettering yourself, and fixing all the wrongs you have done in the past.

Family Ties

By Ben D
Barkindji
2024

The cross-hatching inside the snake represents me, my partner and our seven children. The dots symbolise our many memories and hardships, hard times throughout our struggles. Now we are one, just like this snake as it moves onto much better times, with no worries, free from imprisonment. Our lives can now move forward as the travelling snake does.

Bora Ground Corroboree

By Brendan H
Gunaikurnai/Kurnai/Gunditjmara
2024

This painting shows how two different people from two different tribes can unite in harmony without conflict. The outer circles represent a Bora Ground (dance circle) for each person. The centre Bora Ground is where they unite to form one corroboree together, to stop conflict. The footprints represent each person who is forming a resolution for Future Dreaming.

Life's Sun

By B.Charles
Palawa
2024

This painting represents the sun, the sun comes out everyday and makes living that much better. To me it, doesn't matter what you have done in the past. To me, as long as the sun comes up again, you will always have another day to begin bettering yourself, and fixing all the wrongs you have done in the past.

Family Ties

By Ben D
Barkindji
2024

The cross-hatching inside the snake represents me, my partner and our seven children. The dots symbolise our many memories and hardships, hard times throughout our struggles. Now we are one, just like this snake as it moves onto much better times, with no worries, free from imprisonment. Our lives can now move forward as the travelling snake does.

Artwork From The Torch – Issue No. 23

By The Torch

Two new artworks from First Nations artists.

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ISSUE NO. 23

2 MIN READ

‘Keep Your Spirit Strong and Healthy’: Q&A With Hannah McGlade

Interviewed by About Time

In this interview with About Time, Hannah discusses what motivates her and her message to Mob in prison around the country.

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ISSUE NO. 23

3 MIN READ

Artwork From The Torch – Issue No. 22

By The Torch

Two new artworks from First Nations artists.

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ISSUE NO. 22

2 MIN READ

‘Justice For Jeffrey’: Family Pushes For Answers at Coronial Inquest

By Denham Sadler

A coronial inquest into the death in custody of proud Noongar man Jeffrey Winmar has ended after two weeks of hearings.

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ISSUE NO. 22

2 MIN READ

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