HANNAH MURRAY | 'Emerging From the Darkness' | Acrylic on canvas Stomping Ground " Then she got fire

" Then she got fire sticks and bark

KickArts acknowledges the assistance of the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland

WE FOREGROUND THE IDEAS BEHIND THE WORK THAT WE PLATFORM — POSITIONING IT AS PROCESS-DRIVEN RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY CURIOUS OBSERVERS AND COURAGEOUS AGITATORS WHO SHAPE CULTURE THROUGH THE OUTCOMES OF THEIR LABOUR

They gave each animal a sacred place

HANNAH MURRAY | 'Emerging From the Darkness' | Acrylic on canvas Stomping Ground " Then she got fireHANNAH MURRAY is a Cairns based contemporary artist and arts educator. Hannah works in a range of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, and more recently, product and fabric design. Her tropical vanitas and floating worlds are deliberately idyllic, almost clich representations and attempt to capture the beautiful, fecund, yet often hostile duality of living in the hot, humid, and volatile tropics. On the surface, the work appears strangely