Create eye-catching classroom and whole-school displays that engage students with vibrant Indigenous art and culture. These versatile borders can be used on pinboards, noticeboards, whiteboards, windows, and doors.
This pack features two unique and vibrant designs including
Tribal Country and
Songlines to Country, created by Indigenous artist Russell Yilamara Brown. Russells heritage stems from the Garawa and Mara tribes of South-East Arnhem Land and Groote Eylandt. These borders celebrate identity, ancestral country, and our deep connection to the land. You can learn more about Russel below!
Key Features of Zart Clasroom Boders Indigenous Designs: - Two unique designs: Tribal Country and Songlines to Country, receive 6 of each design, total of 12 borders
- Specifications: Each border measures 8 x 90cm, made from 250gsm durable card
- Versatile use: Ideal for pinboards, noticeboards, whiteboards, windows, and doors
- Designed by: Russell Yilamara Brown, an Indigenous artist of Garawa and Mara heritage
- Cultural significance: Celebrates identity, connection to Country, and Indigenous heritage
Tribal Country 'This artwork is about our ancestral Country. Country sustains life and is connected to all our being, it supports us physically, emotionally, spiritually and culturally. It is where we create, sing, dance, celebrate and commemorate. Country is the rivers, the mountains, the waterholes, the plains, the beaches, the desert and the sky. First Nations peoples have cared for this Country for tens of thousands of years and we all must continue to do so to ensure it passed to our future generations. We need to acknowledge and reconcile together. Country is vital to our culture and identity; it is our Mother and where we belong.'
Songlines to Country 'This artwork shows journey lines, meeting places and patterns that represent the Songlines that connect us together and to Country. It is our dreaming, our Lore, our language, our stories and our knowledge. We are all spiritually and culturally connected to Country, it is intrinsic to our being and identity and important for our physical and emotional health and wellbeing. It is where we belong. It is where and how we are educated through story and song, by our Elders and ancestors.'
About the artist, Russell Yilamara Brown: Russell Yilamara Brown was born in Hornsby, New South Wales in 1983, his Indigenous heritage is from the Garawa and Mara tribes of South-East Arnhem Land and Groote Eylandt. His family was removed from their Country and placed into the Emerald River Mission on Groote Eylandt, where his grandmother was born. They were later relocated by the missionaries to Sydney due to World War II, where Russell grew up. Russell returned to his grandmothers Country to live when he was in his early 30s to reconnect.
Yilamara was the name given to Russell by his Elders. Yilamara is a native orchid, its stem was used for painting and its sap was used to bind the natural ochres together before painting on barks and implements.
Russell began exploring his artistic skills in his mid-twenties and has further refined his traditional style and has developed a contemporary representation.
He is a skilled painter, sculptor and is beginning to explore digital artwork and other mediums. He is a strong advocate for the self-determination of Aboriginal peoples.
