JOHN WILLIAMS | ‘Waterspouts I’ | Acrylic painting on canvas board"My painting shows thandabi or waterspouts which we get over the ocean in the wet season. They are like small tornadoes and are very dangerous if you get caught out in a boat or on the beach. They come over the wet season when a lot of clouds crowd around. Sometimes there'd be up to 4 waterspouts at the same time, each one different color, different shapes. We have songs and dance about waterspouts still to this day. Old people believe that newborn

both for food and for fibres

They first appear in April and move across the skies

Totems: Walk (mother stingray)

they’ll be protected from being speared by my totem

Ink type: Van Son (Holland)

He’s currently undertaking a Bachelor of Visual Arts and Queensland College of Arts (QCA)

gaapu guyuth wayan maluka waruka a dhangal ika gasamka

the Kangaroo

dhangalal mamuy mina anarginga kuyku bubu koey wamenalnga

'Monkey and Tortol'

and express their joyfulness of the riches of the crops

The traditional country of these groups covers some 25