NARRM has continued a long-standing tradition of Sir Doug Nicholls Round, taking part in a cultural gift exchange with Yartapuulti.

The two teams made history on Friday night, participating in the first game to be played between clubs who have rebranded to their traditional language names.

Following a Welcome to Country performed by Uncle Mickey Kumatpi Marrutya O'Brien, Narrm gifted an artwork to Yartapuulti based on a collaborative painting between Pitjantjatjara mother-daughter duo, Josephine Mick and Sally Scales.

The painting depicts their ancestral home, Aralya in the far north-west corner of South Australia.

Josephine is a traditional ngangkari (healer) and senior cultural leader in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. Sally is part of the Uluru Statement Dialogue Leadership working towards an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament.

Josephine and Sally are both members of the APY Art Centre Collective, which is a group of 10 Indigenous owned and governed enterprises that work with a united vision and voice on strategic business initiatives and collaborative artistic projects.

You can see more of Sally and Josephine’s works here via the APY Art Centre Collective website.