Jagi " fire"

For a number of years I worked in the control of bush fires for Queensland Forest Service and wanted to capture what it looked like and felt to me as a Aboriginal person in these prints. From the ashes, the hazey sunsets, to the trees that look like feathers on fire. Sometimes a fire can be scary, sometimes beautiful and there is a certain beauty in fires that we are all drawn to. I can sit and stare into a fire and meditate for hours ( fire is called gujam in Jandai language).

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Artist Statement
Bruce Borey
Bruce is an Indigenous Australian Artist, born and raised on North Stradbroke Island "Minjerribah". After a number of years running culturally appropriate programs for the Indigenous communities, Bruce decided to follow his passion for art and in 2007 enrolled at Griffith University Queensland College of Art. Whilst at Griffith university, Bruce studied painting, print making and jewellery making and design. He was commissioned by the University to make set of cuff links for a guest speaker and in his final year at the University, he won an award for one of his 3D prints which was exhibited on the gold Coast . Since graduationg in 2010 with a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, Bruce has been selling his Art to private collectors nationally and internationally. The last exhibition Bruce was involved in was in september 2019. this was a private Exhibition for a legal firm, Norton Rose Fulbright and their clients, where bruce and other Indigenous Artists were invited to show case their Artwork.