Stephen worked in consultation with the Balarinji group - a leading Australian Indigenous Strategy, Art and Communications company and collaborated with first nations artists Shirley Collins and Susan Peters to develop Big Wind Coming.
Stephen worked in consultation with the Balarinji group and collaborated with a sound engineer and composer to develop this granite work acknowledging the aboriginal people, early settlers and the military. The work emits a soundscape of spoken word stories and recorded sounds from first nations, military and early settler histories.
Stephen worked in consultation with the Balarinji group and collaborated with first nationsartist Shirley Collins on this artwork and landscaping. The creek bed in Seasonal Burn Off references the story of Gabul, the creator of the coastline. The trees are burnt and the grasses regenerate as season follows season. Oyster shells acknowledge the regions sea people and the lands continued use by local Aboriginal families.
Stephen worked in consultation with the Balarinji group - a leading Australian Indigenous Strategy, Art and Communications company and collaborated with first nations artists Denise Buchanan, Francine Edwards and Annalisa Wilson of the Gumbaynggirr Art Trio.
Myall Park Botanical Garden Queensland. A collaboration with first nations artists Dr Pamela Croft and generous collaboration from Cheryl Moodai Robinson.
journeys and connections
journeys and connections
This memorial acknowledges the death in police custody of Cameron Doomadgee (Mulrinji) on Palm Island, Queensland Australia. The 2004 Palm Island death in custody incident relates to the death of an Aboriginal resident Mulrunji on Friday, 19 November 2004 in a police cell. The death of Mulrunji led to civic disturbances on the island and a legal, political and media sensation that continued for fourteen years. This memorial was commissioned in 2019 and was designed by aboriginal artist and friend of Mulrinji Jesse James. Stephen Newton carried out the carving and installation of the memorial. Accompanying the five stones featuring local indigenous symbols and imagery is a text stone containing an apology and statement of healing.
Meeting place and turtle
Stingray and crossed boomerangs
Apology and statement of healing stone
Apology and statement of healing stone (detail)
