Kalkadoon artist Chern’ee Sutton worked alongside the Commonwealth’s top athletes this week.
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The 21-year-old was the Aboriginal artist that created the Indigenous story and designs for Borobi, the 2018 Commonwealth Games Mascot.
Ms Sutton began work on a 12 metre painting in the athletes village this week.
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Commonwealth Games athletes will be contributing to the interactive piece by placing their fingerprints on the artwork during the games.
Ms Sutton said the artwork was called “Caina Putut, Ilya, Wartanganha” which means in the Kalkadoon language “Long ago, Today, Tomorrow”.
“The artwork showcases Australia’s unique and ancient history and culture to the athletes of the world,” Ms Sutton said
“That all 70 Commonwealth countries are represented by a community symbol which have a man and woman athlete sitting around them, each of the large dotted circles that the athletes will be placing their fingerprints in represents the 11 days of the games.
“I have also created three large medals on the painting which is where the gold, silver and bronze medal winners will proudly add their fingerprints,” she said.
“At the end of the games this significant art piece will be exhibited in major art galleries around Australia and the Commonwealth, I would love it to be exhibited here in Queensland first at GOMA though”.
