About the Artist Lyn Thorpe is a Yorta Yorta, Wemba Wamba and Wurundjeri woman with connections to other mobs through her Grandparents. Lyn was raised on Yorta Yorta Country in the Goulburn/Murray rivers area mostly around Barmah/Mooroopna/Shepparton and Echuca in Victoria. Cultural arts and creativity has always been strongly present in her life for as long as she can remember. Lyn grew up around many creative people, she recalls her grandparents and other family members often combined creativity with cultural knowledge, practices and stories not only to create arts and artefacts but was also applied for practical purposes in everyday life. Lyn enjoys researching and drawing on knowledge connected to her people and Country. She loves experimenting with different mediums and natural materials to create works that usually speaks in some shape or form to her ancestral bloodlines, who she is and where she comes from. As a teenager Lyn loved working with textiles, designing and hand sewing her own clothes. While her children were small, she explored digital imagery, combining and layering photos, hand drawing, mark-making and painting to create digitised images and banners representing important aspects around living culture and everyday celebration of our identities andcultural world view which lead her to her first solo exhibition in Melbourne. About the Artwork Dhamala Woka is about my Grandfathers Yorta Yorta Country, through my Mum's side. This work is about a special place on Country where both my Grandfathers were born and where they grew up. This work pays homage to my Grandfathers Country and People, our Yorta Yorta Ancestors and this special place.