KASSANDRA SAVAGE | 'Foraging in the Wetlands' | Drypoint etching Karrbai Thabu Adhy - Kissay including at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal

including at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

Grounded in a lifelong love of nature and materiality

"Snake skin pattern - represents my totem" - Joel Sam

Kausa (Pandanus) II

Born: 01/05/1951

KASSANDRA SAVAGE | 'Foraging in the Wetlands' | Drypoint etching Karrbai Thabu Adhy - Kissay including at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal"My ancestors on my Grandfathers side are Kurtijar people. He is my mothers father and he was born at Normanton and his mother was born on Delta Downs Station. Her totem was the Korrakorr. They are excellent foragers who eat a variety of wetland plants, insects and amphibians. Through researching (and observing) the Karrokorr, I have learnt that they are so skilled that they can forage with their head completely submerge in water. Korrakorr use their