My name is Edward, my language name is Munu Wuthuga Dardakiin and my tribe is Dubbi Warra.

We are from Hope Vale in Cape York, a part of the northern tip of Queensland in Australia. We are one of the last tribes that speaks its fluent original language. I grew up in Central Queensland for most of my life in a little indigenous community called Woorabinda.

I am now living on the Gold Coast in Southeast Queensland Australia and have been here for 11 years.

I’m an artist and a healer, and I’ve been painting for a very long time now. I’ve been working with plant medicine for a few years now, but I’ve always loved plant medicine, ever since I can remember.

I just started my business last year, doing the two things I love the most: healing ceremonies and painting. It has been fun so far, helping people from within and through painting.

Art has opened lots of different doors for me, which has been so exciting for me and my family. I’ve sold a few hundred paintings around the world that I’m very proud of.

If you would have asked me twenty years ago whether this was what I would be doing now, I wouldn’t have been able to say I knew how my life was going to turn out.
I am so thankful for my journey and achievements so far.
One of my best memories was of my childhood and Great Great Grandmother. Just being with her and around her. She was my teacher and is still such a big part of what I do now.
I used to love her stories about her people, her childhood, her country. She was from the Wide Eye people from near Cloncurry in Northwest Queensland. I’m so thankful and very lucky to have learnt from such a beautiful and amazing woman.
I love doing what I do with my culture and sharing knowledge with others. I hope this book and my collaboration with Dawn provides some strong roots for those leaders and leadership teams who head up organisations that provide services to my people and want to be better and do better as leaders for the communities they supply and the cultures they serve.