Nicole Chaffey

Nicole Chaffey has long drawn an art practice from her deep connection to her Biripi heritage and work with local community in Newcastle and Port Stephens. Through her own perspectives, artistic innovations and dedication to the creative process Chaffey shares heritage, language and story as part of a growing creative community of Indigenous creators across the country working to ensure that the rich traditions of culture stories remain vibrant and protected, but accessible to all; A place where the old history can be acknowledged, and the inheritance of an essential and dependent relationship with the land can be honoured.