Aboriginal Bible Continuum

Queensland

Zane Saunders and QPAC

Indigenous Visual Artist and Performer Zane Saunders is a descendant of Butchulla, Gunggari and Jarrowia People’s of Southern Queensland and lives in Kuranda North Queensland, Australia. Culture and aboriginal spirituality is the basis and inspiration of his artistic practice. Zane crafts one-off performances embedded in story and location.

Aboriginal Bible Continuum is about the continuum of culture, standing in the absolution of cultural truths, journeying beyond the discoveries of what is, and prevailing in the process of undoing. Providing platforms to aid in achieving cultural restoration and reform, encouraging justifiable change. An inquisitive exploration into the world of aboriginal culture, seeking answers of spiritual truths entwined in our people’s cultural legacies and instituted values that continually preserve life, providing ways of existing.

What started out as a youthful passion and quest in addressing personal insecurities and issues that continually affect family and broader indigenous communities has transformed into a larger cause, addressing and reversing the effects of colonial cultural genocide, discord and intervention, with discovery and reacquainted steps into levels of indigenous culture and spiritual truths. Aboriginal Bible Continuum invokes ancient indigenous cultural action providing sound cultural solutions. Zane hopes to add valuable contributions to the ongoing efforts of the indigenous collective, addressing systematic issues that hinder the welfare of the indigenous cultural space. Aboriginal Bible Continuum aims to challenge and lead people’s perceptions, to recognise the importance of maintaining culture as essential in the development of our people and indigenous cultural environments.

Photo by Russell Miledge