About Banam Bowai TSS Students
Banam Bowai TSS represents the identifying First Nations Australian students who attend the Southport School. The students come from many countries including local through to the Torres Strait. The students are working together under the banner of Banam Bowai TSS.
2023 SWELL ARTWORK – Banam Bowai
Dreamtime stories explain how the universe and all living things come to be and are connected. The Dreaming interconnects the past, present, and future simultaneously. The Banam-Bowai TSS artwork presents an Indigenous Australian philosophical contribution of practicing a ‘two-way-learning’ between Elders and younger.
The solid lines are representative of masculine and feminine energies merging into the nonbinary sacredness of the two-spirit way. The finer work depicts two-eyed-seeing, an approach where people come together to view the world through an Indigenous lens (perspective) with one eye, while the other sees through a Western lens.
Socials:
Facebook: The Southport School
Website: tss.qld.edu.au
Come and see for yourself at SWELL Sculpture Festival, Pacific Parade, Currumbin 8th – 17th September