Sarah Humphries is a proud Nyoongar woman (yorga) and mother. She expresses her culture, history, and connection to Country, including the ocean (maambakoort), through art. Growing up, she learnt to paint by watching her grandmothers and parents.. For more information about Sarah, click HERE.

The artwork embodies the spirit of this conference and serves as the logo inspiration. The centre of the artwork represents coming together on the banks of the Swan River (Derbyl Yerrigan), to share knowledge and ideas (kaartdijin). The crescent or ‘U’ shape icons represents people, both men and women, sitting in a meeting circle. Fish (djildjit), a net and human hand capture the theme of our conference, “Culture and Conservation: Fishing for Change”. Spears and boomerangs represent traditional cultural fishing practices, and symbolise the need to recognise lessons from the past while striving for sustainability into the future. The endangered and endemic Australian sea lion (manyin) and iconic bottlenose dolphin (kwilena) swim around the meeting circle as locally occurring species but also represent marine mammal species across the globe. Marine mammals hold immense cultural and spiritual significance to traditional custodians, and some of these stories will be shared at the conference. Finally, the two outer circles symbolise the home origin of delegates, connected to the inner circle by physical travel routes and virtual access paths.