Artwork title: Journey to pebbly beach
Artist: Taritah Daugherty
Tribe: Yidinji and Kuku Yalanji, Mununjali, Guginin and Bunjalung.
Company: Tarri Jayne Collective
Unframed, canvas only. 
 
Story:
Hidden along the east coast of Australia is a little beach, snuggled like a child's pocket filled with cherished pebbles, it is the magical and mystical place that provided our people with mussels to fill our famished family...... welcome to Pebbly Beach!!!
 
Footsteps lead the way across the rainforest floor, through bush and across creeks to the opening of Pebbly Beach, a safe space where my nana would play as a little girl, collecting the white pebbles that sparkled in the sunlight, the mounds became slides which fell towards the water’s edge. The horizon of the great barrier reef in the distance, our protector against the power and threat of water. We are rainforest Bama!