BUNDA ART | 'Melicope Elleryana (Julgil / Pink Euodia)' | Mixed media Banggarra "This image recognises the importance

"This image recognises the importance of the Dhangal – Dugong – to our Torres Strait Islander culture and the need to preserve it for future generations

Delvene Cockatoo-Collins is a First Nations artist and designer

and Alcaston Galley

Irene started painting when she was 17 years old

BUNDA ART | 'Melicope Elleryana (Julgil / Pink Euodia)' | Mixed media Banggarra "This image recognises the importanceMelicope elleryana Yidinji word for this tree is Julgil which is commonly called Pink Euodia. "At Yarrabah we called this the Blue Ulysses Butterfly tree because these butterflies would lay their eggs on the leaf. Thus began the Ulysses Butterfly cycle of starting from an egg, changing into a cocoon and an emerging caterpillar from which the glorious Blue Ulysses Butterfly emerged. To traditional Yarrabah people, the resin from the Julgil tree was