Author’s note: Due to colonisation and the effect the White Australia policy had on my people, I did not grow up with these stories given in physical form. My story has been revealed to me slowly through Dreams and visions, which in my culture is a form of how songs and stories are passed down via the other realm.
Jack Sheppard
Jack Sheppard
Jack Sheppard is of the Kurtjar clan of the Gulf of Carpentaria, North QLD. He is an artist driven by his culture, spirituality, and humanity. Jack studied at Naisda Dance College and WAAPA’s Aboriginal Theatre Course. He works and creates in the artistic elements of movement, circus, theatre and physical theatre. Jack has written one short play, ‘Monsson’, has had his poetry published in Rabbit Poetry Magazine – The Indigenous Issue, and The Australian Poetry Journal.