Artwork
Read the Yaegl artwork stories
Aneika Kapeen
Aneika is a proud Yaegl and Bundjalung woman. She was born and raised in Yaegl Country. She is passionate about her culture and Country and expresses this through her art.
Aneika is only new to art but has a strong practice of combining contemporary and traditional Aboriginal art styles.
Frances Bell Parker
Frances is a proud Yaegl woman, painter and installation artist from Maclean, NSW. She is deeply inspired by her Mother’s Country (Yaegl Country) and the Island in the Clarence River that her mother grew up on - Ulgundahi Island.
The Late Jessica Birk
The late Jessica Birk was a Yaegl woman who was raised, lived and worked on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. She graduated from the College of Fine Arts, UNSW and her work was predominantly influenced by her coastal home and strong Yaegl cultural links.
Jess worked closely with her cousin fellow Yaegl artist Frances Belle Parker, with whom she formed Dyinda Designs.
It is Frances, with the support of Jessica’s mother Lois, who will continue her legacy through Jess’s unseen artworks that respond to Yaegl Country.
Gilbert Laurie
Gilbert was born in Lismore and belongs to the Yaegl and Widjibal tribes of the Bundjalung nation. He grew up with his grandparents around Yamba and Lismore and later moved to the base of Nimbin Rocks. In the mid-1980s, Gilbert and Oral Roberts set up an artists’ studio at The Chocolate Factory in Lismore where they worked for many years.