ELVERINA JOHNSON | 'Burriny (Saltwater)' | 2025 | Painted buoy using acrylic paint Naomi Evans education and employment equality by

education and employment equality by 2030 and reduce the seventeen year life-expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous peoples

the University of Melbourne (2007)

This print depicts such a journey

She uses different techniques and layering to achieve a depth of texture which makes you want to pick it up and explore it

ELVERINA JOHNSON | 'Burriny (Saltwater)' | 2025 | Painted buoy using acrylic paint Naomi Evans education and employment equality byThis orange one is called Burriny, which means Saltwater. In Yarrabah, our Country provides a little bit of everything. We have freshwater running down from the mountains and then saltwater right there in front of us. Growing up, the beach was where we spent most of our time. We fished, camped, went swimming and gathered food, whatever our country would provide us. My family lived in a little tin shack on the beach, so the ocean was part of everyday