About the Artist

About Me 

My name is Iszac Walker, born in Atherton, QLD, AUS. My cultural ancestry lies in Wadjanbarra Yidinji, Butchulla, Kuku-Thaypan and Gungarri nations, with my strongest connection to the Yidinji peoples land, where I was born.

I didn’t begin exploring my culture properly until I was 18, learning from Elders and listening to the old ways. The more I learned, the more I understood how much Aboriginal knowledge still sits untold. I’m still on that journey, so it’s not my place to teach those deeper practices yet — but what I can share is Art, and why it has always been an essential part of our people.

Art has always been a human language, and for us, it carried the stories of the Dreamtime. In the old days, Dreamtime wasn’t just about the past — it was the dreaming of what was to come. Our people would sleep, see the days ahead, and share those visions through ceremony and symbol.

Aboriginal art was a way to teach. It was understood that every child carries a part of their parents, and their parents before them — a chain stretching back to the first people. Today we call it DNA. Back then, this inherited knowledge was accessed through story and pattern. The symbols in the artwork could awaken memories held by past generations, keeping our teachings strong and unchanged.

This is what guides my work today: using art to honour memory, hold story, and continue the teachings that have travelled with our people since the beginning.