I was lucky enought to go to the Swan game last night and was amazed with the Swans Indigenous guernsey comparied to the NRL ones the guernsey has meaning to the club.
Should the club look to have a professional artrist design there guernsey or players?????
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Sydney Swans players are set to don a new Marn Grook football guernsey this year, which has been designed by GO Foundation scholar, artist Lua Pellegrini.
A proud Wiradjuri woman who grew up on Darug country, Pellegrini is studying at UNSW and is Chairperson of the NSW Youth Advisory Council.
The artwork on the guernsey is titled Duguwaybul Yindyamangidyal which means altogether respectfully: respect, gentleness, politeness, honour, careful, altogether as one. It represents connectedness, depicting the story of the 19 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men who have played for the Sydney Swans, both in the past and the present.
Marn Grook is the name given to a traditional game played during a corroboree of the Djawurrung and Jardwadjali clans in Victoria’s Western District. It is believed this game was one of the inspirations behind Australian rules football as it’s known today.
Pellegrini said she can’t wait to see Sydney Swans players run out in the guernsey, which will be worn in each of the two weeks of Sir Doug Nicholls Round.
“It will mean a lot, not just to me but to my family, to see the team run out in my design,” Pellegrini said. “When the Swans contacted me, I was writing an Indigenous Studies essay about Indigenous round guernseys, the importance of the round, and what it means for the Indigenous community as a whole. So, it was really special for me to be asked, and to be picked was even more exciting.”
GO Foundation Co-Founder Michael O’Loughlin said he is incredibly proud to have a GO student design the Marn Grook guernsey.
“Lua is a classic example of never giving up and that just makes my heart smile,” O’Loughlin said. “To have myself on there, representing my people back home in Adelaide – the Narungga/Ngarrindjeri/Kaurna people – that for me is really special, as it would be for all the other players who have represented the club.”
The 19 Swans players are represented on the guernsey through 19 circles, with each circle representing the importance of the people who support the players, including their own families and communities.
The blue throughout the guernsey represents water, as water is at the core of life for First Nations peoples. Intertwined with the land, water plays a vital role in the strong connection to country of Indigenous peoples, as well as their own being.
Each of the blue circles are interwoven, showing the relationship that these 19 players share as Swans players, as well as their cultural and familial connections to one another. The light red background featured on the front and the back of the guernsey represents the future and what is to come.
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Anyone know where I can get some Xanax this time of night ?
Try your family and friends at Cabramatta or Mr Wong side ally chemist.
That's a bit racist , HOE action is needed.
Really liked the Broncos jersey, the eels one isn't far behind
Meh , a red nylon , made in China shirt with no sleeves and a massive insurance company logo and what looks to be some kind of Coronavirus's on it 😂😂. . What meaning does it have other than too turn a profit ? Rabbits one has intestines a bowel and a little fish penis on it ?
They all look fucking tacky as fuck .reminds me of the " oh Mr Hart what a mess " ads .
You are a deadset dopey cunt
such an opinion behind your keyboard
love to see you talk like this to Widders or any Aboriginal person, you would not have the strength to do so.
Haha ! What would Widders do? Eat my lunch on me ?
Big tough man , talking fights on a forum 😂😂, Either way history says , I'd win and you and ya mates wouid spend the next umpteen hundred years bitching about the time Wiz kicked your arse over a Swans jersey.
Marty so what you're saying is that if Wiz or anyone else who is not indigenous said to Dean Widder or a Aboriginal person that they disliked a particular piece of Aboriginal art that they would be physically attacked ?
Nobody has to like Aboriginal art mate, its still up for criticism or piss taking like every other art in the world.
I live next to the most highly populated Aboriginal area in Sydney, Woolloomooloo.
I have plenty of Aboriginal mates i see with their dogs at our local park, you could easily say what wiz said to them and they'd take it with a good laugh.
Aboriginals arnt some scary type of people who are going to bash you for making a joke about their art, they love a joke and take the piss all the time.
I think they are intelligent enough to be able to hear a joke about their art, don t you?.
Nobody has to like every type of art do they?
we don't need your foolish racists veiws on the blog
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