DARREN BLACKMAN | 'Gangga (the white bellied sea eagle) | Etching | Fine Art Print Linoprint Leigh Namponan Tek-aanan growling

Leigh Namponan  Tek-aanan growling

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west to Ravenshoe and east to include Hinchinbrook and the Family Group Islands

Sally is also an emerging painter and potter and she draws on her feeling for the landscape to visually express the landscape and stories of her cultural heritage

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DARREN BLACKMAN | 'Gangga (the white bellied sea eagle) | Etching | Fine Art Print Linoprint Leigh Namponan Tek-aanan growlingBorn in the sugar cane town of Nambour in South East Queensland, Darrens mixed heritage plays a significant role in his artwork. His father is Ganggalu, of Central East Qld, and Goreng Goreng of the Fraser Coast area in South East Qld. Darrens mother is of kanaka decent, whos grandparents were brought to Australia, to work on cane plantations, from the northern islands of Vanuatu. Saltwater themes, personal cultural subjects and birds feature heavily