ROBERT TOMMY PAU | 'Monkey and Tortol' | 2021 | Painting Memberships Screams and cries echo throughout

Screams and cries echo throughout the night

Ngaw ama a nanu tukuypal

Her family and community members would walk to the stones during low tide

Image size: 1000mm x 1620mm

ROBERT TOMMY PAU | 'Monkey and Tortol' | 2021 | Painting Memberships Screams and cries echo throughoutROBERT TOMMY PAU, 'Monkey and Tortol', 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 76. 2 cm "I have come to understand that this song is a Pilipino fable with a TS context. The slop tin mention in the song was the slop chest that the master boat used to indenture labour from the Pacific and East Asia. The damper was the Islander dependence on subsistence living." Courtesy of the artist. Tommy is a descendant of the Eastern Torres Strait Islands, Australian