Plawau Kawsal
Plawau Kausal is when flowers bloom on the island with beautiful colours from red, orange and yellow making the island scenery beautiful.
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Kai Kai Shell
These are all the shell fish people on Moa like to eat.
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Guguab II
This artwork captures the repetition of generations; the three ladies sitting and weaving depict the past, present and future. Intrinsically interwoven in this art piece is the teaching and knowledge that is passed on from generation to generation. Uman means weaving, teaching and knitting together the knowledge that is passed on. The basket at the bottom of the print symbolises a vessel where all the knowledge that is taught by gathering together is placed into and held; in order to preserve and retain the past for the future.
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Baits
When we go out on the reefs at low tide or even go into the creeks. These are some of the baits that we use to catch fish.
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Murai Kuridh (Crayfish)
This print depict the rock lobsters which is the type of Crayfish species that in our culture we call Murai Kuridh Kiar. It sheds off it’s shells mainly during the cool season around June/July month. In recent years, it has been dismissing off it shells in the wrong seasons due to climate change which have contributed to it’s seasonal life cycle and to it’s environment in the sea and reef.
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Wind
This print is based on certain days that are good to travel into Thursday Island before this big wind picks up.
Art Centre notes:
The artwork is a lino print, printed on BFK Rives paper (100% cotton rag with strong archival properties).
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BIG WAVE
This print is about water. The seas around Moa Island at different times of the year are rough or smooth. When the waves are rough it is too hard to travel and go out for fishing. You have to stay back at those times.
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ONE TWIST
This artwork is about a weaving workshop in interprets my one twist drawn onto a Lino.
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Vision of Life
This particular artwork of a rose symbolise my personal belief and is a representation of how I like to see the world. It’s the beauty, calmness and colourfulness of a rose that depict the true appearance that springs from the sacred level of my spirit just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower. It reminds me of the visual aspect that lies within, no matter what you look like from the outside, if you know you are beautiful, nothing can change that. The thorns are like a reminder of no matter how beautiful, delicate and sweet something is, it has the potential to be hurtful. However, forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it.
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Native Orchid
One of the treasures of Mua Island, a plant that is spread for the women of Moa. This orchid resilience to growing in the hash environment and surviving the weather and yet still blossom in its season. resembles the resilience that is in each women of Moa. the white patterns depicts the weather and environment that the Orchid grows in and draws it’s nutrients in order to survive.
Art Centre notes:
Image size: 56 x 38cm. Paper size: 76 x 56cm
The artwork is a (colour reduction/B/W) lino print, printed on BFK Rives paper (100% cotton rag with strong archival properties).