We have been crunching the 2022 numbers and we are pleased to report our team have been able to support more participants, and sell more artworks, than ever before. In 2022 we worked with over 800 First Nations participants in The Torch program and, with your support, sold or licensed over 1,500 artworks, producing $1.1M

The 10th Koorie Art Show launched on 3rd December 2022 and runs to 19th February 2023. It features work by nine artists and three staff from The Torch program. Support this milestone First Nations exhibition at Yarra Building, Fed Square or browse all works online here. The Koorie Heritage Trust at Federation Square takes Koorie

Recently we held a five-day mural training program at Siteworks in Brunswick where we trained up ten artists in the art of mural making – from design, preparation, painting, airbrushing and aerosol work. What a successful week it was – progressing this exciting branch of our organisation and in turn increasing artist opportunity. THANKS SO

Gumarran is a Yolgnu artist from the north-eastern Arnhem Land region of the Northern Territory. He joined The Torch in 2020, and is a post-release participant living near the Bellarine Peninsula in Victoria. Gumarran’s paintings often incorporate flowing, expressive brushwork and a colour palette that takes inspiration from natural ochre colours, and more recently some

Future Dreaming – an exhibition of 263 artworks created by 263 Indigenous artists within Victorian prisons – opened online one week ago. There are currently 140 incredible works available for purchase, and you can now view the works in person. Simply drop in to 46 St Kilda Road, St Kilda on a Wednesday or Friday

Alfred Carter (Gunaikurnai) has been shortlisted as one of three artists to have their artwork prominently displayed in the new $217 million hospital expansion at Latrobe Regional Hospital! Latrobe Regional Hospital put the call out for Expressions of Interest from experienced Victorian First Peoples artists, to commission visual artwork that will connect their new building

Gunditjmara/Yorta Yorta artist Melissa Bell was over the moon when she heard the Victorian Public Tenants Association licensed her popular ‘Rain Coming Down’ series for their new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Tenant Advocacy Pilot Program. The VPTA recently welcomed two Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Tenant Advocates to their team, Elly and Elsie. These roles are

Last week, The Torch Projects team worked with The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital to complete their ‘Welcome Space’ Art Installation! The Mural depicts the Mannagum Leaf – Boon-marrit-tak gooreen Biik, Boon-marrit-tak gooreen gulinj (Healthy Country, Healthy People). The Mural was painted and installed by The Torch artists and is a replication of Mandy

Four artists in The Torch program – Ash Thomas, Robby Wirramanda, Trevor, and Veronica Mungaloon Hudson – have had their artworks wrapped around The Torch’s four new Toyota RAV4 hybrids! Toyota Australia and Toyota Finance Australia are proud supporters of The Torch and have funded the wrapping and artist licence fees for the new RAV4

Wade is a Kuku Yalanji artist who was taught to paint by his big brother, Ray. His paintings are richly textured with intricate double dot work and he has developed a technique of warping his line work to give shape and dimension. His favourite subjects are animals that are full of life and expression, and