Jilli Manning is a creative being who lives in the tropical paradise of Cairns.

She grew up in Brisbane, surrounded by Indigenous artists and activists.

Her formative years, spent travelling to remote communities with her family, facilitating aboriginal culture workshops greatly influenced her life, work and how she views this astonishing and beautiful landscape here in Australia.

“We are the land. We are the same as the little green ant on the tree. The cockatoo in the sky. The fish in the sea. You and me, we got this. Dreaming of a better tomorrow.”

Her influences are vast and varied, but somewhere in between the simplicity of symbolic representation and the chaos of colour. Which roughly translates to the entirety of the universe.