JOEL SAM | 'Bidthai (Squid)' | Linocut PrintJoel Sams family lives in Bamaga, Cape York, and originates from Saibai Island in the Torres Strait. Born on Thursday Island, he currently lives in Cairns, having finished his art studies in 2005 with a Diploma of Art from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Visual Arts Course at the Tropical North Queensland Institute of TAFE. Since then he has been developing an art practice and technical skills in the media of linocut, sculpture and etching. Joels

Wagel nuy ay a sizi nidh ayman kikriw adhamayngu za

When its Guth (low tide) its always easy to find dead starfish

Overtime I have enjoyed expanding my practice into creating abstract sculptural works of varying sizes

These are all handmade

Along the top of the work are the different phases of the moon that occur across the season

'Story Lines'

I paint to keep their memories alive so others would know who the Keepers of Country are

After high school it was than a search to find my adulthood

5 (h) x 65

a hapless and constantly-flummoxed experiment gone wrong

is a series of seven stars that appear in the night sky above Papua New Guinea in the shape of a shark

emery paper