Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services Polo Shirts
Funds raised from the sale of the polo shirts will go to the PA Research Foundation to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander initiatives hosted by Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services. Indigenous Art used provided by Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services. Details about the artwork and the significance of the artwork and colours can be found below.
Polo Shirts are $40.50 (shipping included)
Sorry! Pre-orders closed on 28 February 2024.
The next pre-order is anticipated to be around mid-year.
All shirts are available in blue, green and orange colours; in men's, women's and kid's sizes. Details such as sizing, ordering, and delivery information are available on the AKL Industries website when you click on the pre-order button above.
Please note: Please choose carefully. All merchandise is made to order and we cannot provide refunds or exchanges.
Enlarged view of the shirt to see the details
Artwork Information
Name: Our Cultural Being
Artist: Charlie Waters
Medium: Digital Art
Cultural practices provide people with enablers that support them to function on a daily basis. The artwork showcases visual locations and totemistic symbols that we see and use to help us get through life challenges. Having these cultural aspects in our lives are valuable. We share these practices with family, friends, work colleagues and those associated within our support circles.
The large circle is a symbolisation of a bora ring, which brings people together during ceremonies, practice healing & health who celebrate old and new cultural practices. Connection circles bring us together. The city of Brisbane is now a visual contemporary location that showcases where our people live and call home.
Metro South Addition and Mental Health Services are a part of cultural and healing practices for our people within the Brisbane and the surrounding areas. Their presence is within the middle of the work a workforce that is so valuable spiritually to heal and establish culturally safe environments for their clients.
The boomerangs are a symbol of strength and resilience for health workers. Never give up. Always return. Be there by your side.
The colours - The top and bottom art works display our waterways, waterholes and the green for the environment. These surround our communities that have are accepting support needs and connect with each other through the sharing of stories and cultural actions.
Our Cultural Being (Blue)
Blue represents the water areas of Metro South. Traditional coastal tribes that still today reside on the islands, along the coastal shores and for the mobs that live within the city, their connections to the sea. Metro South is rich in sea people’s historical knowledge which is fluent in contemporary attributes of society.
Our Cultural Being (Green)
Green represents the rainforest and woodland areas of Metro South. Tribes that once practiced significant spiritual health, social wellbeing ceremonies these sites became permanent features in the lives of people.
Our Cultural Being (Orange)
Orange represents the whole geographic catchment of Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services
