The artists painting their Indigenous songlines to stay healthy and strong

The healing power of art is well known, but in Indigenous communities it is taking practical form in funding local dialysis

Dorothy Ward taps her head and her heart as she explains the process of painting her songlines.

“My family had the knowledge, the knowledge with culture, of every dreamtime rock hole ... they bring the story into the painting,” she says.

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When they age they go there and they paint, paint, paint

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