The Centre
The Munarra Centre for Regional Excellence is more than just a striking architectural feat – it is a profound cultural beacon, meticulously designed to celebrate and integrate Indigenous culture and heritage.
Every aspect of the building, from its shape to its artistic details, reflects a deep commitment to cultural expression and community connection.
Architecture
Artwork
The knowledge imbued within our art asserts our invincible spirit, unbroken connections, and invites others to share in the belonging of the myriad of connections we exist in and create
Belinda Briggs, Yorta Yorta/ Wemba Wemba, Kaiela Arts Indigenous Lead Munarra Artwork Commissions
Munarra Centre artwork
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BRIGGS, Aunty Glennys, 'Ceremony' (Taungurong )
Ceremony informs us that ceremony, knowledge and spirit is here. Personal belongings of a bull roarer signals ceremony of man, the string bag a vessel for holding tools, a day’s forage or maybe it’s holding learned and lived knowledge.
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ATKINSON, Suzanne 'Bull Ants' (Yorta Yorta)
Suzanne's Bull Ants speak to might of an individual but also the strength in numbers, the resilience to endure, determination to overcome and an invincible spirit.
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STEWART, Uncle Norm 'Blow Hole' (Yorta Yorta, Wurundjeri)
Uncle Norm’s depiction of the Blowhole in Tocumwal, acts as a portal to another world, drawing us in and reminding us of the stories steeped into the land and Dungala. Rising up through the centre like the sun, Uncle Norm’s distinct markings in his work Three Rivers (Dungala, Kaiela and Yakoa or Murray, Goulburn and Campaspe) draw our eyes skyward to the heavens, inviting respect for our waterways, the life they and the sun give us and our Ancestors too.
Danica Miller, Stewart Russell, Suzanne Atkinson, Belinda Briggs., Glennys Briggs, Norm Stewart, Lyn Thorpe.
Meet our artists
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Glennys is a proud Taungurong woman, of the Briggs/Walsh families. Her works are in public and private collections including Home Of The Artist (HOTA), Redland Art Gallery, University of Queensland, Shandong University, USA and Hong Kong. She has a Bachelor of Art, Contemporary Indigenous Art, majoring in print media, from Queensland College of Art, Griffiths University. Glennys has a focus on painting, sculpture, installation and sound, wearable art and possum skin cloak making, with her main focus on printmaking. You can find out more heres here
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Suzanne is a proud Yorta Yorta woman, of the Nicholson/Cooper families. Her art mediums are weaving, ceramics, painting, poetry and wood burning. In 2015 she gained a bachelor’s degree of Contemporary Arts/Visual Arts from Deakin University and is currently enrolled in Certificate 3, Visual Arts Centre for Koorie Education at GOTAFE, Shepparton. Exhibitions include: ‘Imperfectly Perfect’, solo exhibition at Kaiela Arts; ‘Ant’, Shepparton Art Museum, ‘Piinpi’, Darwin Fashion show.xt goes here
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Norm is a proud Yorta Yorta and Wurundjeri man of the Morgan/McRae families. His mediums are clay, wood carvings, and acrylic and watercolor paintings. ‘My style can be a bit vast at times and quite vivid, at first I began painting in the Aboriginal style then attempted portraiture and landscape paintings. This then encouraged me to broaden my knowledge of the Arts.’ In 2013 Norm enrolled at Deakin University for a 3-year Visual Art Degree.
The courtyard is positioned in the centre, opened to the sky. This choice not only honours the flag's symbolism of unity and identity but also embeds cultural significance into the very structure of the Centre, with all areas having access to the outside world and to Country.
