Melissa Ladkin and Nickolla Clark "Burra Jurra #II" (Seashore) Ben Ross which further binds them together

which further binds them together by their custodial obligations

Gloria’s art focuses on many of the traditional Aboriginal symbols such as camp sites

a visionary

She lives in the Northern Rivers NSW seaside town of Pottsville with her husband Tom and her children and grandchildren also living in Pottsville

These ochre stories are the palette of my cultural expression and I hope they can evoke and resonate with your own connection to country and how you walk upon it

Melissa Ladkin and Nickolla Clark "Burra Jurra #II" (Seashore) Ben Ross which further binds them togetherMelissa Ladkin and Nickolla Clark are both local Indigenous contemporary artists living in the Byron Shire on proud Bundjalung land. Collaborating here for The Bangalow Film Festival to bring you "gannu". Collaborating together for the first time, Melissa a proud descendant of the Awabakal Wonnarua Bundjalung peoples has been caring for country most of her life joins Nickolla Clark a young Arakwal woman of the Bundjalung nation from Byron Bay, through