Oil on linen, ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

These two fellows were participants in a project I painted for an exhibition about the community of people that constituted their school, Ltyentye Apurte Catholic Education Centre, in central Australia. I was a weekly visitor to the Aboriginal community where I taught a teacher education course to a group of Indigenous assistant teachers and loved getting to know the younger students as I spent time drawing them and drawing with them in their regular classes and on recess. The drawings I made and the photos I took that this painting came from happened on the very first day of the project, when I was hanging around the canteen before school started, chatting to the kids who'd arrived for breakfast.