When Tori-Jay Mordey returns to her birthplace of Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, she s home. As soon as I can smell the salt water, I see the water, I see the sand, [and] it just hits me. I take my shoes off, walk around barefoot. I don t live here but this is home.
While she was born on Thursday Island, Mordey has been living in Brisbane since she moved to the city to develop her artistic practice at university. She is now an alumni of Griffith University s Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art course. I believe it s one of its own kind in Australia, Mordey tells
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