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Dylan B, Gunaikurnai
Fishing Journeys, 2025
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
49 x 71 x 2.5 cm

This painting tells a story about me and my little Sis. It’s about fishing. There’s a shallow creek near my grandma’s house full of eels. I remembered going to the creek as a kid and feeding the ducks and the eels. It’s a secret spot of mine located in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne - close to home and where I grew up. Anyway, I was in rehab in St Kilda in 2024, and I convinced my sister to go and try catch me one eel, so I could use it for shark bait. I go land-based shark fishing down at Western Port Bay in Victoria for late-night missions. After many nights, she failed. But one night she succeeded; she brought home one small eel and one massive one. So we went on our mission! I later decided to do a painting of the eel. In the painting is a drawing in the sand of the big eel. The blue faded lines represent the ocean, and the markings on the eel represent different tribal markings that have a connection to the eel. The line drawings in the sands are meeting places and journeys, and spots that we have found. The blue dot work is the pond with the creek running off it, and the five veins in the blue water are all the little creeks and waterways that run off it.