The 4th Kids and Youth Koorie Art Show
The Koorie Art Show Kids and Youth is our annual event showcasing the diverse talent of Victoria’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people. This year we are proud to present the 4th Koorie Art Show for Kids and Youth.
This exhibition is designed for our aspiring young artists aged between 5 and 16 years.
Award Winners
5-10 year olds
Koorie Art Show Award – prize pack to value of $100 (X2)
Winner: Kyah (8 years of age) for The eagle That watches over the people, Sculpture
Winner: Tiannah (9 years of age) for Gathering Basket, weaved basket
Encouragement Award – prize pack of $50 (X2)
Winner: Valerie (9 years of age) for Spread your wings and fly, Collage
Winner: Colleen (9 years of age) for My Country, Wamba Wamba, Painting
Special Mention Award – to the value of $100
Winner: Flynn (7 years of age) for Save the Whales, mobile made of recycled materials
11-16 year olds
Koorie Art Show Award – prize pack to value of $250 (X2)
Winner: Tanisha (13 years of age) for Mother Earth and her Creations, sculptural piece
Winner: Chloe (11 years of age) for Drama Llama, watercolour on paper
Encouragement Award – prize pack to value of $100 (X2)
Winner: Jakai (12 years of age) for YARTO where the wind blows, acrylic on canvas
Winner: Grace (14 years of age) for mirda-yoont, paint on canvas
Exhibition Walkthrough
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1. Alkira (5yo) Danghatti Dancing Yawk Yawk, 2021 Textas
My Yawk Yawk lives where the fresh and sea water meet. Her hair is a golden seaweed and when she swims, she shimmers; it’s like dancing. Her babies spin around in circles and they stay close to their mum.
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2. Andreaella (12yo) Yorta Yorta, Wiradjuri, Barkindji One Punch – Genos, 2021 Textas & pen on paper
This is my mine and my dad’s favourite anime, his name is Genos. Genos is robot/anime character from an anime named ‘One Punch’. Genos and his best friend ‘Saitama’ are my favourite.
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3. Andreaella (12yo) Yorta Yorta, Wiradjuri, Barkindji Dark Deception – Reaper Nurse, 2021 Textas & pen on paper
This is a drawing of the Reaper Nurse from a game I am interested in called ‘Dark Deceptions’. The nurse sounds like Harley Quinn, who I also love.
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4. Chloe (11yo) Aboriginal Drama Llama, 2021 Watercolour and paint marker on paper
Drama Llama is a llama who got sunburned cause he stayed in this sun for too long and then later he became sparkly and that he turned rainbow forever.
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- 5. Cody (11yo) Aboriginal Aboriginal, 2021 Acrylic on canvas
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6. Colleen (9yo) Wemba Wemba My Country, Wamba Wamba, 2021 Paint on canvas
This is my Country I often dream about.
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- 7. Cowen (7yo) Aboriginal Nick, 2021 Acrylic on Canvas
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- 8. Curtis (5yo) Aboriginal Askit, 2021 Acrylic on canvas A painting of my cat.
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9. Cyrus (10yo) Yorta Yorta River Bay Necklace, 2021 Possum skin, shells, nuts
“It’s good” (artist’s words)
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- 10. Declan (10yo) Yorta Yorta, Wemba Wemba Rainbow Dash, 2021 Oil and water-based paint on canvas
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11. Elijah (8yo) Aboriginal Pyrograph mini coolamon, 2021 Timber
We collected the timber from our block of land in Percydale and have brought it down to a mini coolamon then used the burner to pyrograph on it my dad helped guide for safety.
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12. Eliza (9yo) Boandik, Wiradjuri Dinawan Walking, 2021 A canvas with acrylic paints, with authentic emu feathers and Inti seeds
Dinawan Walking is an old emu who is walking around in the hot sun in search of food and water. Dinawan is waiting for the sun to go sleep so that the dark storm clouds can wake up, leading him to water. I decided to do my painting after completing a workshop with the Koorie Heritage Trust this year. The workshop was facilitated by Ange Jeffrey who sent me some real emu feathers. I love painting so much that I wanted to use both paints and feathers together. Ange inspired me to use the feathers on my emu’s body and also the inti seed for his eye.
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- Flynn (7yo) (Taungurung, Dja Dja Wurrung), Save the Whales 2021, found litter, recycled materials, wire, plastic, acrylic, farmers twine, recycled plaster, hayband.
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14. Grace (14yo) Pibbulman Noongar wooyan, 2021 Canvas
With this painting I tried to not get so technical and just paint. I also tried experimenting with some book pages from Red Dwarf.
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15. Grace (14yo) Pibbulman Noongar mirda-yoont, 2021 Canvas
This painting helped me unwind after school and paint freely: which wasn’t intended because I was getting too worried and complicating what to paint!
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16. Jackson Koori Solar System, 2021 Paper
This is the solar system.
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- 17. Jackson Koori Tree, 2021 Painting A tree.
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- Jakai (12yo) (Wadawurrung), YARTO where the wind blows, 2021. Entry in the 4th Kids and Youth Koorie Art Show, 2021. Image Christian Capurro, 2021.
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- 19. Jemma (9yo) Aboriginal Unicorn Rainbow, 2021 acrylic on Canvas
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- 20. Jessica (10yo) Aboriginal Unicorn Rainbow, 2021 acrylic on Canvas
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- 21. Kyah (8yo) Yorta Yorta, Gunditjmara, Wurundjeri, Gunai The eagle That watches over the people, 2021 Sculpture
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- 22. Lyndsay (10yo) Yorta Yorta, Gunditjmara, Jardwadjari The River, 2021 Watercolour on canvas This is about the river.
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- 23. Maggie Dharug, Tharawal I am an Aboriginal girl, 2021 Chalk pastel and chinograph pencil My mum said- Maggie can you be so kind, holding hand with your friends and being very peaceful? My mama is Aboriginal and so am I. I am wearing beautiful pink blossoms and yellow wattles in my hair.
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- 24. Marley (7yo) Peppimenarti, Arrernte Bunjil Bless, 2021 Clay This is my clay statue of Bunjil.
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- 25. Mirikki (5yo) Gunai Kurnai, Dja Dja Wurrung Mirikki in the Garden, 2021 Paint and Canvas This is my happy place.
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- 26. Nathan (9yo) Aboriginal Fractal burning coolamon, 2021 Timber This timber was collected from our block of land in Percydale and hand brought down to a mini coolamon then fractal burned with help from my dad for safety.
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- 27. Nevaeh (10yo) Yorta Yorta My roots, 2021 Digital image I’m a proud Yorta Yorta. I love sharing my culture and art with many.
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- Ngari (10yo) (Yorta Yorta, Gunditjmara, Gunai, Wurundjeri), My Family 2021.
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- 29. Noah (9yo) Dalawa Little Warrior, 2021 Shells, beads, cotton, feathers (Emu, Cockatoo, Rosella, and tawry frog mouth), Tasmanian ochre, calico I am a strong, brave Palawa fella and wear my colours proudly. My family are from the North West Coast of Tasmania and the shells and ochre show my connection to our land and seas. I have always had a strong connection to birds and have included the feathers I have collected from Bunurong country. The spirit, strength and freedom a bird has when soaring through the sky reminds me of Bunjil our creator and encourages me to stay strong like all our people as we are the oldest living culture. When I wear this headband I can cover my scar and it makes me feel strong and brave like the other men in our family. I am a proud Little Palawa Warrior.
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- 30. Ruby (10yo) Gunditjmara Wedgetail Rock, 2021 Watercolour pencils, fine liner I wanted the viewer to feel a connection to it and really feel something through looking at my artwork. I chose Uluru because I’ve always wanted to go there and see it at sunset. I chose to put wedgetail Eagles in my work because I have always wanted to see those magnificent creatures Circle around Uluru.
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- 31. Ryan (10yo) Gunditjmara Wedgetail Rock, 2021 Watercolour and ink on paper I wanted the viewer to feel a connection to it and really feel something through looking at my artwork. I chose Uluru because I’ve always wanted to go there and see it at sunset. I chose to put wedgetail Eagles in my work because I have always wanted to see those magnificent creatures circle around Uluru.
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- 32. Seraphina Milkyway, 2021 Acrylic on canvas
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- 33. Stephanie (7yo) Gunditjmara A Day in the Boat, 2021 Pigmented Ink textas, regular textas, metallic permanent marker pens I would like to go in a boat and catch some fish. I like all the different colours of blue in the world.
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- 34. Tanisha (13yo) Wathaurong Mother Earth and her Creations, 2021 3D mixed media – clay, foam, paint, bush nuts, wood, feathers Mother Earth and her Creations is a representation of my connection to country. The spiritual journey represents the bright and colourful country that we stand on, we tell stories through watching our spirit animals watch over us and care for the earth. The native flowers show the natural beauty of the earth and throughout we have bush fairies caring for babies, a man hunting Baru for dinner and the Echidna sitting in the dry billabong located in the dark starry sand.
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- 35. Tanisha (13yo) Wathaurong Black Boy, 2021 Canvas It’s a black out.
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- 36. Tiannah (9yo) Yorta Yorta, Gunaikurnia, Gunditjmara Gathering Basket, 2021 Basketweaving I wanted to make a basket that shows the weaving that I have learnt how to do this year. Weaving is something that has always been important to our tribes to make mats, baskets, fishing nets and other useful things. I learnt how to weave from my mum using natural grasses from country with my cousins. We learnt how to collect and prepare the grass and then how to weave with it. Afterwards my mum taught me to weave with raffia. My culture is special to me and I am really proud of this basket, it is the first basket I have ever made. I have decorated with feathers that I have collected and inside are other things that I like to gather to use, like seeds and ochre. I know I will keep weaving until I am older.
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- 37. Tyreese (6yo) Gunai/Kurnai The land that is very old, 2021 Acrylic paint on bark I got the bark from my country Gunai/Kurnai when we were camping there. The painting on it is the land and everywhere we meet on it.
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- 38. Tyreese (6yo) Gunai/Kurnai The First People, 2021 Acrylic paint on plywood The background is the land in its colours and the people are the Aboriginal people emerging from it.
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- 39. Valerie (9yo) Gunditjmara, Gunai Spread your wings and fly, 2021 Collage using paint sticks, cardboard and paper When I recently saw my Mummy she told me the red-tailed black cockatoo is our mob’s totem. We are from Gunditjmara Country. When I made this collage I felt connected to my Mummy and my culture. I nearly didn’t send it in to the art show because it is so close to my heart. As I made it, I decided to let one of the wings stretch beyond the edge of the artwork. This reminds me to work hard and try to reach beyond what I earlier thought I could achieve.
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- 40. Valerie (9yo) Gunditjmara, Gunai Day and night: can we be friends?, 2021 Cardboard, paint sticks, paper, coloured cellophane My Daddy is from Gunai Country and our totem is the Blue Wren. I don’t see my Daddy very much and I miss him. I wanted to feel closer to him and my culture by creating a collage using our totem. When I thought of my Daddy being alone, I decided to give the Blue Wren a warm cuddly friend – the possum. They are out and about at different times of day and night, but I think they can still be friends. At first I didn’t want to send this in to the art show because looking at it helps me feel closer to my Daddy. I then thought I will keep a photo and take my chances.
We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of our Award and Exhibition Partners: Creative Victoria, Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support Program, Australia Council for the Arts.
We also acknowledge the support of our Precinct Partner Fed Square.
Jakai (12 yo), YARTO where the wind blows, 2021 (Photo: Christian Capurro)