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PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival 2024

Maku Collection

Credits

Storyteller: Maddy Hodgetts

Director: Kieran Satour

DOP and Grade: Andrew Amanaki, Amanaki Studios

Editor: Josh Amanaki, Amanaki Studios

Camera Assistant: Del-Ray Fruean

Photographer: James Evans

Talent: Christopher "Burra" McHughes, Karley Barker, Niqua Morris, Tia Higgins and Riley Higgins

Filmed on the Traditional Country of the Ngiyampaa people in New South Wales. Always was, always will be.

Special thanks to Lacey Boney, the Brewarrina community and the GARUWA team.

Kirralaampuwan

Aryclic on Canvas

2024

This is the children’s version of the story told by Uncle John Shipp

Back in the Ngurrumpaa, as the people moved around the land, they saw many stars falling from the sky onto where Girilambone is today.

When the people found where the stars had fallen, they discovered that there were beautiful and precious stones lying everywhere, so they all started to gather them.

The surrounding tribes had also seen the stars falling, and they too had come to investigate. Being mesmerised by the beauty of the stones, they started collecting them as well.

Fights started breaking out amongst all the people as they became greedier and greedier for the beautiful stones.

Biami watched on as the people fighting over these precious stones were breaking the law that all people should not be greedy. He covered the stones over and created the hills that we see today at Girilambone as a reminder to everyone to share and not become greedy

Acrylic on Canvas
2023

This artwork depicts the Puugan River that starts in Wiradjuri Country and flows through Wangaaypuwan Country. With influences of traditional Ngiyampaa styles, the artwork depicts a mapping line style seen in our local cave art. You can imagine your self flying over Country and looking down on the river, connected as one, one line and heart. One can’t live without the other.

Buuganka

Acrylic on Canvas
2022

This print depicts my Wangaaypuwan Country.
I’m flying over Country, I see the red dirt, I see the rivers, I see the mountains. All the different shapes of Country but all connected as one, one line and heart. One can’t live without the other.

That is the interconnectedness we share between our Country, the plants, the animals, and our People.