MELISSA STANNARD | ‘Striped Marsh Frog – Limnodynastes Peronii’ | Sterling silver pendant with patina, brass and copper Lino print Coconuts play an important role

Coconuts play an important role in marking land boundaries on the island

he moved to Western Australia to work for many years

Kowai (bush apple)

This series has a whimsical playful feel in a variety of earths's metals tha treflect the glinting sun and the natural environment

Sageraw Thonar is the period of the travelling turtle

MELISSA STANNARD | ‘Striped Marsh Frog – Limnodynastes Peronii’ | Sterling silver pendant with patina, brass and copper Lino print Coconuts play an important roleMelissa Stannard is a proud Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay, and Koama artist, researcher and poet, living on Kabi Kabi land on the Sunshine Coast. Melissa has completed a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, majoring in (JSO) jewellery and small objects in 2019, and undertook the Kungullanji Program under the supervision of the esteemed Dr Michelle Langley, during the summer of 2018 2019. She has a keen interest in nature and the environment,