LAURIE NONA | 'Badhu Habaka' | Linocut print Sik Pormpuraaw is on Thaayorre country

Pormpuraaw is on Thaayorre country on the west coast of Cape York

The five hibiscus flowers represent my mother and her four sisters

naygay ika kidh yoewka Mabuygingu Maluyligaw malunu

ELVERINA JOHNSON (‘BUNYA BADJIL’)

"My Country is behind Ninyilki

LAURIE NONA | 'Badhu Habaka' | Linocut print Sik Pormpuraaw is on Thaayorre countryLaurie Nona, Badhu Habaka, 2016, linocut print on paper, 200. 4x118. 4 cm (image size), edition of 6 (Photographer: Jon Linkins) $4,000 "Badhu Harbourka (2016) tells the story of the pearling industry on Badu Island. The work is dedicated to my father Philip Nona Senior a respected elder of the industry. Intertwined within the print is a story of my fathers, which was composed into song and dance. The story tells of how two brothers my father and my