KASSANDRA SAVAGE | 'Korrakorr's Spectacular Dance' | 2026 | Plate lithograph | H 300 x W 197 mm

"The Korrakorr was the totem of my Great Grandmother Maude, a Kurtijar woman from the Gulf of Carpentaria. Her tribal name was Naraggie. I have reclaimed this knowledge through searching my family history, it fills me with pride to learn this. I wonder what her life was like growing up on Country and if she saw her totems and their spectacular dancing. I feel connected to her through my love for the Korrakorr (brolga)."

Kassandra Savage is a descendent of the Waanyi and Kurtijar people of the Gulf of Carpentaria Country of Queensland. She was born in Cloncurry in 1967. Kassandra is an Early Childhood Teacher and has been teaching for 36 years in many schools and communities including Mount Isa, Cairns, Bamaga, Injinoo, Weipa, Mapoon and Mossman. Kassandra is an artist and printmaker who has exhibited in Cloncurry, Mount Isa, Cairns - UMI Arts, NorthSite, Melbourne, Roebourne, CKB Art Prize, Hornsby Art Prize as well as in CIAF, Darwin Indigenous Art Fair and National Indigenous Art Fair and her work was selected for Vie du Pacifique international print exchange and toured Pacific regions (2021-22) and was shown at NorthSite. Kassandra was also part of the Spotfire print program at NorthSite Art Studios 2023 and 2024. She created and exhibited 5 new etchings with NorthSite at CIAF in 2025.

KASSANDRA SAVAGE | 'Korrakorr's Spectacular Dance' | 2026 | Plate lithograph | H 300 x W 197 mm