KASSANDRA SAVAGE | ‘Collecting and Cooking Yabbies on Country’ | MonoprintKassandra Savage is a descendent of the Waanyi and Kurtijar people of the Gulf of Carpentaria Country of Queensland. She was born in Cloncurry in 1967. Kassandra is an Early Childhood Teacher and has been teaching for 31 years. She has taught (and supported other teachers) in many schools and Aboriginal communities including Mount Isa, Cairns, Bamaga, Injinoo, Weipa, Mapoon and Mossman. She is currently living and teaching in Mossman, on Kuku Yalanji

The artwork thus becomes the boat's spectral fiction and a ghostly apparition

"The Kuku Yalanji (Kuh-kuh Yel-an-jee) Language is still spoken today by our Bama-bama (Bum-mah bum-mah)

KASSANDRA SAVAGE | ‘Yabbie Cook-up on Country’ | 2025 | Monoprint | 56 (h) x 76 (w) cm

4 cm (image size)

Thupmul lak kedha

BRIAN ROBINSON | 'Basquiat's  Crown' | 2018 | Linocut / hand-coloured | 34 x 49 cm | Edition of 15

and that if you ask for what you need

I was a grandmother by the time we returned to our homeland and I used to live there most of the year

Collaborative printer: Elizabeth Hunter

and in 2018 she won TPG Architects Prize for 3D work

which was shortlisted as a finalist in the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in 2010

Passionate about art