Improving Indigenous Education - renewal, retention, reconciliation

Last Friday I attended the IEU's Indigenous Education Conference at the Mecure Hotel in Sydney. It was a great day, lots of networking and interesting conversations and developments, particularly around the new Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. It's going to be a huge area for a lot of people.

I presented a workshop "You've got to have the conversation" with Emma Peel from the CEO and Leesa Watego from The Critical Classroom and Iscariot Media.

My artwork also featured on the cover of the booklet.

Congratulations to the organisers of the conference and I hope that we have another one next year.

New art work

This is my most recent work created for a colleague who left the CEO late last year. I've been working with leaves for the past few years. The birds however are a new addition I might do more of. 

Creating my portfolio

I've spent a lot of the past two decades in my work creating artwork for schools, staff, and organisations. My artwork is even held in the Vatican.

Sadly (maybe stupidly), I've never given much of a thought to documenting my work. So I'm going to start re-tracing my artwork and creating a folio.

My good sista Leesa Watego found an online image of one of the very first works I did for an organisation. It was for the Manly Warringah Reconciliation Group.