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Jack has decided to generously donate a limited series of his painting ‘Trying to Protect Our Land’ to the ‘Protect Gulf Country’ campaign. The campaign focuses on Jack’s work to get Country back to Aboriginal ownership and then to protect it from the risks of invasive mining. The four clan groups with responsibility for protection of the McArthur River (Gurdanji, Garawa, Yanyula and Mara people) are suffering from the impacts of imposed mining that has destroyed parts of the sacred McArthur River and polluted the water and fish with lead. Now mine operator Glencore has created an even bigger problem, with acid forming in the mine‘s giant waste rock dump and leaching poison into surrounding waterways.

Jack Green’s artworks are held in a number of national and private collections. He says he started painting to get his voice out.

“No one is listening to us. What we want. How we want to live. What we want in the future for our children. It’s for these reasons that I started to paint. I want government to listen to Aboriginal people. I want people in the cities to know what’s happening to us and our country. I want the government and mining companies to know that we are still here. We aren’t going anywhere. We aren’t dead yet. We are still here, feeling the country.”

-Jack Wongili Green, 2015 Peter Rawlinson Award winner

Funds raised through the sale of the painting will be used by Indigenous peoples in the McArthur River region for community-led initiatives to put an end to Glencore’s reckless mining that is contaminating food resources and poisoning local livelihoods. Your support will help a delegation of Traditional Owners attend and speak to the Glencore Executive at the company’s Annual General Meeting in Zug, Switzerland on May 16, as well as cover costs for Australian leading experts in legacy mine management to complete a comprehensive closure and rehabilitation plan for McArthur River mine for the community to present to Glencore and the NT and Federal Governments.

Options for purchasing your copy of Trying to Protect our Land

Reproductions are available on both archival paper and canvas in a range of sizes.

Archival paper reproductions: $300 including postage and GST in Australia. Available on 40 x 60cm + 3cm border produced using full archival quality paper, printed with lifetime lasting archival pigment inks.

Canvas: Reproductions are on 430gsm cotton poly canvas supplied rolled and ready for stretching. There are three options:
66 x 100cm + 5cm wrap – $600
100 x 150cm + 5cm wrap – $1300
140 x 210cm + 5cm wrap – 2 only – $2975

*All prices include postage within Australia. International postage costs are extra and will be determined by seller.