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About the Artist
Raphael Jerripin-Boodjarn is a proud Indigenous, Queer, artist, therapist, and cultural facilitator whose work is shaped by a rich tapestry of lived experience—including surviving leukaemia three times. They are Ngarigo through their grandmother and Yuin through their grandfather—Raphael carries a deep, embodied connection to Country that informs every aspect of their creative and healing practice.
Known for creating powerful spaces of transformation, Raphael weaves together cultural arts therapy, ceremony, meditation, and land-based healing to support both individual and collective journeys. As a multidisciplinary artist, ritualist, meditation teacher, and workshop facilitator, they bring a rare blend of cultural integrity, trauma-informed care, and spirited leadership to every space they hold.
Artist Statement:
I am Raphael Jerripin Boodjarn a Ngarigo and Yuin multidisciplinary artist. As a Queer, Disabled, neurodivergent, fat bodied, and leukaemia survivor, my art emerges from lived experience, ancestral memory, and a deep relationship with land and spirit.
My practice is ceremony: a convergence of body, story, and sovereignty.
I create work that traces the evolving expression of the world’s oldest living culture. While rooted in ancestral tradition, my art honours the fluid, responsive nature of contemporary Indigenous identity. Through visual art, performance, installation, and ritual, I explore how culture lives, adapts, and breathes—held in our bodies, carried through our stories, and sustained in resistance to colonial boundaries.
My work challenges imposed norms and disrupts the colonial gaze, centring the beauty and complexity of Fat, Disabled, Queer, and neurodivergent Indigenous bodies. I explore themes of visibility, pleasure, and embodiment as powerful sites of cultural continuity and creative transformation.
Each piece is a living act of presence—an offering to the land, a conversation with the ancestors, and a vision of Indigenous futures grounded in truth, fluidity, and radical imagination.
This is not about revival—it is about evolution. Culture never died. It dances, dreams, and shapeshifts through us still.