Ngunna Dhaara celebrates Richie’s spiritual connection to Ngunnawal Country. These paintings are the journeys he has taken across Country, the places he has immersed himself, the feelings experienced, age old dreaming stories and his inherent need to share stories through his love of painting. 

Painting for Richie becomes another means of storytelling and how he shares his personal journeys on Country.  They provide new perspectives for viewing the land he so loves, Ngunna Dhaara.

As a First Nations woman, I have been fortunate enough to live on both my Grandmother and Grandfather’s countries for most of my life.

I am a very proud Ngunnawal and Wiradjuri woman who is now fortunate enough to live on beautiful Yuin Nation country, a place my mother lived for the last 20 years of her life while maintaining her traditional connection to our homelands.

These three connections are full circle for me.

Everything is connected, and I am connected to it.

Ngiaga (I/I am) is a collaborative series of mixed media works created with other First Nations artists. Together, we explore interconnected stages of life through 10 themes: Birth, Connection, Heritage, Culture, Community, Society, Lived Experience, Mother Earth, Spirituality, and Purpose (Life Path). These works reflect the stages we move through as individuals and as part of a collective experience.