The weight of colonisation often feels almost impossible to dismantle.

It’s a burden that can affect the way we interpret the things around us; like climate disasters, to our own sense of self, like who we love and how.

Kirli Saunders explores all this and more in her stunning book of art and poems, Returning.

Archie Moore knew he wanted to call his Venice Biennale show kith and kin from the very beginning. In simple terms, it means ‘friends and family’ but in reality, the title draws from their Old English usage.

Tamara Pearson is a choreographer and mentor from Hope Vale in far north Queensland, and our language legend this month.

For the past couple of weeks, she’s been sharing Guugu Yimithirr words that connect to each other: the words for people and language.

Today, she’s sharing her third word – a word meaning ‘land’.

Tamara Pearson is an artist, choreographer and mentor from Hope Vale on Guugu Yimithirr Country in far north Queensland. 

She explains how she uses dance to teach language, and why it’s important to tell stories through movement. 

Even though it's an original story, returning Waru to Country is a significant part of Bangarra’s creative cycle.

Elma Kris, Jenson Warusam and Frances Rings discuss the significance of bringing the story to the Waiben, Thursday Island where it was performed in Kriol on Country for the first time.

Ngiyampaa artist Pirritu makes gentle, heartfelt music that invites you into the depths of his personal journey.

He shares the importance of language in his artistic practice, and how competitive triathlons brought him to music. 

Tamara Pearson is an artist, choreographer and mentor from Hope Vale on Guugu Yimithirr Country in far north Queensland.

As well as running a dance company, Sacred Creations Dance, Tamara has been working with the local language centre to keep Guugu Yimidhirr language strong.

Today, she’s sharing the word for ‘people’.

Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black) is a short film by Yankunytjatjara artist Derik Lynch and filmmaker Matthew Thorne.

It’s a story of Derik’s homecoming and spiritual healing..

One that immerses you in his life as a queer Angangu, and uses Inma — a traditional form of storytelling that incorporates the visual, verbal and physical. 

Derik and Matthew talk through their collaboration, and how they came to work together.

From bean-like seed pods to the rib cage of an emu, Emily Kam Kngwarray drew inspiration from her Country and became an exceptionally prolific and commercially successful artist.

The Emily Kam Kngwarray exhibition brings together public and private collections from around the world; showcasing her most breathtaking artworks and the way her practice developed over time. 

It also sets out to correct the record, and in doing so, embed the old lady back in her Country. 

Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs is an educator, a writer and an important voice for Yolngu in north-east Arnhem Land.

She's sharing a word she likes to teach her students at Yirrkala School.