Acrylic on canvas

Signed on the back.

The original concept for ‘Waves of hope’ was based on the overwhelming hope I heard listening to the voices of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls in 2018. They voiced their hopes for a better future, one of being acknowledged and recognised in the constitution. One where the date we celebrate as a nation is changed to bring about reconciliation and healing. Their unwavering hope that things will change for the better washed over me in every place I visited. I would often catch myself remembering a wave of hope and it reminds me why we must continue to fight and challenge the status quo.

Post Referendum on a First Nations Voice to Parliament, these waves of hope remind me that there is a whole generation of young people coming behind me that will try again. I see these waves as a Tsunami, slowly building, that will one day wash over the nation in years to come and finally, we will be recognised in the constitution.