A collaboration between Mark Atkins and Erkki Veltheim, Mungangga Garlagula tells a deeply human story of homecoming, through the combined musical and storytelling talents of its co-creators.

...The Badgebup Aboriginal Corporation’s celebration in Katanning reflects the town’s multi-cultural society, which includes around 50 language groups!

For the last couple of years I’ve been involved with an ambitious arts project called Reclaim the Void. It’s a bold cross-cultural project, born from Ngalia elders in Leonora, Western Australia, expressing their pain and grief at ‘those gaping mining holes left all over our country’. The idea was conceived to symbolically ‘seal’ one of the holes with an artwork expressing the story of country…

The Shire of Kulin recently invited me to spend a couple of days there to create their own stock library of photographs. It was a perfect time to visit with the canola brightening up the landscape, and the wildflowers starting to bloom as winter was giving way to spring…

…Whilst the membership of the Kulin Men’s Shed might be small in number, the combined knowledge and passion for the town’s history that these blokes hold more than makes up for that…