Tania Hartigan
Tania is a leading artist in the Liverpool Plains region and GAMILAROI yinarr living in Wallabadah. She brings a strong connection to family, Country, and masterful storytelling through her traditional work. For this project, she is designing patterns and imagery that will appear across several textile pieces in the collection.
Featured Prints
This series explores the contrast between natural elements and urban architecture. Each print captures a unique moment where nature reclaims industrial spaces.
About Gubiya
The Gubiya and Yananga ranges explore our relationship with country through water and how access shapes the way we move and live on the land.
Gubiya means "to swim" in Gamilaraay language, a privilege we experience as regional people when the seasons bring rain and the rivers flow. Each design begins as hand-drawn artwork by Tania Hartigan, then it is digitally translated onto fabric.
Three original symbols inspired by traditional imagery tell the story:
Spiralling Water represents the endless cycle we witness, the pattern of drought and rainfall that defines our seasons.
Fingerprints reminds us that every action we take on country ripples through the environment and shapes the flow of water around us.
Barbed Wire speaks to colonisation and its impact on our waterways, while also pointing toward repair and how we can protect our creeks and rivers by keeping farmland separate from the water that sustains us.
About Gubiya
The Gubiya and Yananga ranges explore our relationship with country through water and how access shapes the way we move and live on the land.
Yananga means "to walk" in Gamilaraay language, which is how we cross our waterways when they dry during droughts. Each design begins as hand-drawn artwork by Tania Hartigan, then it is digitally translated onto fabric.
Three original symbols inspired by traditional imagery tell the story:
Spiralling Water represents the endless cycle we witness, the pattern of drought and rainfall that defines our seasons.
Fingerprints reminds us that every action we take on country ripples through the environment and shapes the flow of water around us.
Barbed Wire speaks to colonisation and its impact on our waterways, while also pointing toward repair and how we can protect our creeks and rivers by keeping farmland separate from the water that sustains us.
Kerri-Ann (KEZ) Taggart
From Singleton, NSW, KEZ is a WONNARUA digital artist with strong ties to mob and Country. Her work brings together contemporary digital design, illustrations and cultural expression. She loves creating art. KEZ has designed several prints for the fashion line and creating woven accessories for the runway.
Featured Prints
Kerri-Ann explored the combination of fire imagery, the abstract patterns formed by smoke, and the mountains as a geological representation of Wonnarua Country. She used RED to express the intensity of heat, GREY to represent drifting smoke, and Azure Blue to reflect regrowth and the eucalyptus-covered mountains.
She grounded the pattern in strong line art inspired by the traditional Wonnarua rock engravings. She incorporated the ochre mouth-spray technique to build natural texture across the work. The mountains shaped the movement of the piece, guiding how the lines, colours, and smoke-like forms interacted. By combining fire imagery, abstraction, mountain forms, engraving-inspired linework, and ochre practices, she created a visual language that stays grounded in Country while pushing into a bold, contemporary interpretation of the Bushfire.
A collection of abstract works that play with color, texture, and form. These pieces invite viewers to find their own meaning and interpretation.
Jo-Anne Barr
Jo is a highly experienced hat maker and textile artist whose mentorship has supported every artist in the project.
A commited ALLY to First Nations arts and culture, she brings passionate knowledge, genorosity, and skill, making her an exceptional teacher and an invaluable resource to the team.
Cassie Fisher-Patterson
Cassie is a DJAARA multidisciplinary Indigenous artist with experience in First Nations fashion nationwide. She brings strong creative insight, industry knowledge, and cultural leadership to the project as a mentor, helping guide the collection from concept to the runway.