Ulada Ikya Ami (Listening to Beforetime Stories) presents an overview of Injinoo culture and history from Northern Cape York Peninsula. Large-scale print works reveal narratives from dreamtime, to colonisation, and into the current era. The cultural knowledge of the Gudang, Angkamuthi, Yadhaykana and Atambaya nations of Northern Cape York Peninsula, and their interconnectedness as Injinoo people, is showcased through the works that highlight the internal and external impacts of culture through myths, legends, historic rock art, and spirituality.
Ulada means Beforetime and depicts the
dreamtime stories of the Northern Cape York
Peninsula. Myths and legends surrounding
the creation of the land and sea are portrayed
through both traditional and contemporary
accounts of the Gudang, Angkamuthi,
Yadhaykana and Atambaya nations. The
ancestral rock art of the Gudang nation is
showcased providing insight into the historic
sightings of ships, animals, people, canoes
and the Bula Bula spirit of the region. I thank
the Gudang nation, the ancestral owners of the
Somerset rock art, for entrusting me with this
sacred cultural knowledge.”