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Cultural Medicine
Lyn Thorpe
Knowing who I am & where I come from has been a constant central guiding path & purpose in my life. I have strong memories & wonderings that I still draw from my early childhood years, where pro-activism & Aboriginal ways of knowing & being were strongly practiced. Growing up in culturally centred, nurturing family life, being cared for included parents, grandparents & family of all generations, living & gathering on our rivers & our bushlands, where sharing stories & memories was a way of life; and creativity was used in multiple differentiated forms & ways to service different purposes, both cultural & otherwise…a central guiding path nurturing strength, pride & purpose to explore deeper into our histories & stories & cultural ways of being & knowing ourselves.
Over the years I increasingly express & relate holistically to cultural ways of being as different forms Cultural Medicine that we can purposely restore through using culturally appropriate ways that are determined & shaped by our People, for our People, who we are & where we come from.
Key Yorta Yorta language words are best used here to authentically express relational, historical, cultural & contextual significance, meanings & ideas flowing through our Cultural Medicine collaboration contributions largely by Yorta Yorta Winya’s & Women from other mobs.
Ngaikun speaks to the importance of knowing who we are & where we come from, Angurram embodies a sense of Being who we are, Bamunga expresses our ability to Feel, who we are & Gabra, guides us to tune into our innate senses, exploring & relating to the interconnected nature of Aboriginal cultural intelligence. Our Nanyak, our Dreaming map where everything is connected to everything else…ancient stories & ways of being have been embedded in our People, our Bloodlines & Country from Time Immemorial!
Nanyak holds the essence of our Dreaming, our Cultural Medicine…knowing & living who we truly are, & where we come from is what connects us to our Ancestors, our Country & to each other, our Ancestral songlines awakens us to feel & know our senses as cultural beings…healing comes in many shapes & forms, Cultural Medicine reflects our holistic journey to explore, reset, heal together through creation. We strive to create space, slow time down, strengthen & restore our greatest potential through purpose, healing & gratitude. Our cultural language, symbols & creations let our Ancestors know that we are still here to be guided by the Legacies & Ancestral knowledge systems of our Ancestors over Time Immemorial.
This print was created as part of the 2026 Bupolga Collection with artwork by Lyn Thorpe and screen-printing by Spacecraft and Tarn Parker.
Medium: Hand printed silkscreen print, limited edition on archival Hahnemühle paper
Size: 75 x 0
Catalogue No: LT-154-26-VE
$350.00
About the Artist
Lyn Thorpe
Lyn Thorpe is a proud Yorta Yorta woman. Art has always been an important aspect of her life. As a teenager Lyn loved working with textiles, designing and hand-sewing her own clothes. She has experimented with new and different techniques and styles in making art including digital media by mixing photos, paintings and craft in a digital format. This process culminated in her first exhibition in Melbourne. For Lyn, art is more than the object itself, but rather the social connection to the stories and people she works with. She says ‘Art is a pleasure especially for kids, it gives them that space to pull back, to focus on one task at a time and do something meaningful to them.' Further she states, ‘Art is a valid way to create or tell a story. It builds relationships and enables people to feel the history of country so they can be more closely connected.’
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