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Oral Laurie

Oral Laurie                                                                                             ARTIST

Youth Award Winner 2006 SCU Gnibi Peoples Choice Grafton with “Three Brothers”

Oral Laurie is an up and coming young artist whose works feature the “Three Brothers” a legend handed down to him.

The story goes………..Long ago Birrung, along with two brothers, Mamoon and Yarbirri, came to this land with their wives and children in a great canoe from an island across the sea. As they came near the shore a women on the land made a song that raised a storm which broke the canoe in pieces. All the occupants managed to swim ashore. This is how ‘the men’, the baigal black race, came to this land. The pieces of the canoe are seen to this day as certain rocks in the sea. One of the canoe pieces is here at Goanna Headland, Evans Head. If anyone throws a stone and hit a piece of the canoe, a storm will rise and the voices of Birrung and his boys will be heard calling to one another. amidst the roaring elements.