“The main reason I love painting is to keep the stories that the elders told me about the community alive."
- Charlie Chambers Jnr -
ARTWORK STORY
When we come into the world, we come in with nothing on our backs and when we leave we take nothing.
All we leave behind is our memories and our footprints. In the centre, we have the mother and the baby. I put the footprints on the side here because while we’re on the Earth, we pass that knowledge on to the next generation and keep that strength alive. And the next generation has to stand proud like the emu and the kangaroo.
Stand proud because you’re standing on 65,000 years of culture. That’s passed generation to generation from the old people, and we’re keeping their stories alive too.
About the artist
Charlie Chambers Jnr
Charlie Chambers (Jnr) is an Australian Aboriginal artist belonging to the Jarowair tribe from the Toowoomba, Dalby and Bunya mountain region.
