Illustrations created in collaboration with Parry Agius, Linking Futures, for Star Dreaming -holistic athlete development. The dark emu image is used in each picture. These graphics illustrate preparing indigenous players for the Australian Football League AFL – which involves much more than just the player…
Other sketch drawings…
The Northwest Shelf gas field extension has been approved by the re-elected Labor government. It will increase cultural and environmental damage on land and in the sea and only add to greenhouse emissions….a very poor decision.
Concluding the previous post, it’s the legal obligations to the Sámi people that are being conveniently overlooked. The full report – in Swedish – with all of the illustrations can be seen here.
Hydropo’wer development is disrupting the traditional migration routes of the reindeer hearding Sámi people of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula. These are some of the illustrations created for a report by Katarina Inga, the Stockholm Environment Institute. –
The impact …
Earlier posts on the Sámi: Sami impact, Sami reindeer hearding, Sami ‘development’
Illustrations for Professor Ninis Gunhild Rosquist, Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography:
‘I have collaborated with Sami reindeer herders during the past 10 years with focus on climate impacts and as their adaptation to the effects of climate change is hampered by the cumulative effects of land exploitation it’s a challenge to communicate/illustrate the full impact.’ These two illustrations contrast the present developing situation (above) and the same scene pre-‘development’ and before increasing impacts from climate change (below).
An earlier post on the Sami is here.
Cartoons from the Alliance Building Day – Climate Impacted Communities Canberra Delegation – 25th March 2024, ‘For too long others have spoken on our behalf, or assumed what communities want and need.’ Preparation for the Advocacy Day on the 26th, ‘advocating in Parliament House for key asks that would improve the outcomes for climate impacted communities‘.
An alliance of: Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action (BSCA), Climate Action Network Australia (CANA), The Sunrise Project, The Grata Fund (re The Australian Climate Case), Sweltering Cities, Plan C, Reclaim Our Recovery and more!
John Strehlow, author, theatre director and more, has lived in the Northern Territory ‘off and on since 1972 as has taken an amused interest in the practice of importing experts from the rest of Australia to aid its development, This book is the result of his observations on this fascinating phenomenon’. Here are some cartoon illustrations from The Southern Expert’s Handbook…
A running joke in the book is that if a southern expert actually does take their job seriously they will be banished to far off Borroloola. As it happens Borroloola is now one of the centres of the innovative and effective Indigenous Learning on Country Program – (as I have learned from my brother Hugh), It is about shared respect and meaning. Sharing of knowledge and experience of living and working together through two-way learning.
More seriously, John Strehlow is the author of The Tale of Frieda Keysser, the 2400 page history of his grandparents, missionaries Carl and Frieda Strehlow, sparked by the discovery ‘of Frieda’s diaries, written in old script German, and the realisation that this personal record of her life in Hermannsburg, from 1897 and 1908 which revealed previously unknown details of their lives their and happenings in the community and more generally around Central Australia.’ John Strehlow sets straight the controversy stemming from Professor Baldwin Spencer’s denigration of Carl Strehlow’s anthropological research – and ‘exposes Spencer as a major scientific fraud‘.
Evidence of the Strehlow legacy can be heard in this episode of the ABC Word Up podcast – ICTV journalist and translator Damien Williams shares a Western Arrernte word with a German influence.
Contact John at Wild Cat Press john@strehlow.co.uk
Changing the narrative – artwork for the South Australian Council of Social Service (SACOSS) Annual Report 2022-23.
‘Protesters at a government-backed housing project in Adelaide’s north have condemned the way Aboriginal ancestral remains have been treated at the site, after what the premier conceded was “one of the largest findings of this type” in the country.’ The remains of at least 29 people have been uncovered in a burial ground across the site. A good overview from the ABC here.
Simon Kneebone - cartoonist and illustrator 