A NAIDOC Week art work is telling the story of Tenambit Public School.
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Artist Caleb McGrady Munro and assistant designer Jay Smith have been creating the work using Aboriginal painting techniques.
It revolves around the 2018 NAIDOC Week theme Because of Her, We Can! and depicts school principal Donna Stackman in the middle and the staff around her.
It then portrays all of the classes using different colours.
The work, which was officially unveiled during the school’s Education Week celebrations, will complement the existing indigenous works across the school.
Mr McGrady Munro said the work represented the connectedness at the school and how everybody worked together to create a welcoming and united community that supported each other.
“This is our first big one I’ve done, I’ve done them before, I paint, but I’ve never done one as big as this before,” he said.
“It helps me to get in touch with the cultural side of things. Growing up mum painted, pop painted and I started and I just sort of ran with it. I did a few pieces in high school and I liked it.
“It took a day to draw it and a week or two to get it finished, Once we got into it something else took over and it happened really quick.
This is the first big one I’ve done, I’ve done them before, I paint, but I’ve never done one as big as this before. It helps me to get in touch with the cultural side of things. Growing up mum painted, pop painted and I started and I just sort of ran with it,
- Artist Caleb McGrady Munro
