Koorie education and engagement

Lowell Hunter

Lowell Hunter is a Nyul Nyul man from Broome in Western Australia who has a working background in the areas of Aboriginal Education, Health, Justice, Employment and youth mentoring.

Lowell is an experienced Aboriginal cultural awareness training facilitator, having delivered training for a number of years to many large-scale organisations and government departments. He also has extensive experience delivering school and kindergarten cultural incursion and tradition dance programs.

Lowell is very passionate about Aboriginal culture and traditional dance, which he was fortunate enough to have had passed onto him from the age of 10. He now passes on this knowledge onto other young Aboriginal men.

Lowell creates sand art, and personally delivered a piece to EMC last Friday and spoke with Koorie students from EMC and LPS. Lowell began his art as a way of staying connected to Country and managing his mental health.  It has since flourished into a creative business aptly named Salty One.

“I’m a Nyul Nyul and Bardi man from the Kimberley region of Western Australia so I’m a salt water man through our people’s salt water connection to Country, but I have grown up mainly in Victoria, particularly down the south-west coast of Warrnambool on Gunditjmara Country.

“I have loved being by the sea and in the water through swimming, body boarding or surfing which has allowed me to maintain my connection to salt water and the ocean while growing up in Victoria.”