PETER B MORRISON | ‘LIFE CYCLE OF THE FLOWER’ TP 1/2 | Etching / watercolour Jean Tamwoy Bevan Namponan Uu'thawan (Kissing) etching

Bevan Namponan Uu'thawan (Kissing) etching edition of 10

DHANALGAW THAMAI (Cultural Shift)

Paper Size 122cm H x 81cm W

When I was about 2 or 3 years old our people were all taken from Bentinck island to the mission on Mornington Island because there was a severe fresh water shortage on Bentinck island

Far North Queensland and I am Yirrganydji (Cairns to Port Douglas) and Nughi (Stradbroke/Moreton Island) Aboriginal woman

PETER B MORRISON | ‘LIFE CYCLE OF THE FLOWER’ TP 1/2 | Etching / watercolour Jean Tamwoy Bevan Namponan Uu'thawan (Kissing) etchingThis drypoint etching was created in Peter's home studio and printed in Firebox Print Studio inconjunction with KickArts, RJIP and the Tropical North Queensland Indigenous Printmaking Program. Peter Bertie Morrison was born on Thursday Island and grew up in Cairns. After he finished school, like many Torres Strait Islanders at the time, he moved to Western Australia to work on the railways. This work saw him travelling Australia for work for many