Employment, Mentoring and Understanding Program – About the Artwork

“Coming Together”

The Indigenous artwork represents the young apprentices who are portrayed as the emu chicks as they grow and learn together and developing into skilled tradespeople. 

The symbols either side represent their families and the shows them travelling to and from home to CEG (meeting place) in the centre. On their life journeys and developing into an adult male/female tradespeople. This is portrayed as the adult Emu shown centre. 

The acrylic painting is aesthetically pleasing and represents our Youth with its use of a bright vivid array of colours being represented some of which are turquoise, orange, medium yellow, yellow ochre, crimson red and of course the use of conventional colours lamp black, titanium white, light grey, burnt sienna, brown and olive green.