The immersive, illuminated 2km trail through Brisbane’s City Botanic Gardens is back – and this year, it features works of two North Queensland First Nations’ artists.
Lightscape has returned for a second year, with two Queensland Aboriginal artists among those creating works for the immersive, illuminated two-kilometre trail through Brisbane’s City Botanic Gardens.
North Queensland-based Bong, also known as Bindur Bullin, is a printmaker by trade who sometimes creates shields from rainforest woods.a 1995 work made in collaboration with his uncle – has welcomed travellers into Brisbane for more than a decade from within the international airport’s arrivals terminal.Speaking before the event’s opening, he explained that his works blended Aboriginal and post-colonial elements, but were not political statements.
He said visitors would notice the designs within the shields that evoked the sting of a scorpion, a Yidinji symbol for strength. Traditionally, strength-imbued shields are used in coming-of-age ceremonies for young men. “Then the young warrior will paint his totem and everything on that shield – a piece of goanna, snake or whatever he is – but he will put, most of the time, the scorpion sting.”
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