JOEL SAM | 'Yatha - Spider Shell' | Linocut PrintJoel Sams family lives in Bamaga, Cape York, and originates from Saibai Island in the Torres Strait. Born on Thursday Island, he currently lives in Cairns, having finished his art studies in 2005 with a Diploma of Art from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Visual Arts Course at the Tropical North Queensland Institute of TAFE. Since then he has been developing an art practice and technical skills in the media of linocut, sculpture and etching. Joels

Mazau bidthail (reef squid) 2008

Certificate and image courtesy of the Mornington Island Art Centre

Image size: 320 x 200 mm

the publication examines the influences and experiences of the artist to shed light on how a boy from TI who loved to draw can develop into a senior contemporary practitioner and produce such an extraordinary body of work

About Titanium

meaning small totem

" - John Murray

Moegu kuth mineral muynu koey waru agunu thonar tidayk

Buway mura gar woeydhamin

from his Traditional country

Aurukun Exhibition catalogue 'Akay Koo'oila

as family members and part of the community