2023 - Healing Scars by Warren Mason (Yuwaalaraay)

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WORKING TITLE: Healing Scars

A collaboration with Elder dancers to create a story of who we are and where we come from. Healing Scars crosses a number of generations of injustice of First Nations Peoples since colonization. Stories are told through dance, looped sound design and language telling the tough stories for this country to move forward.

Warren’s Story

Warren Mason was born in Dirranbandi, south east Queensland in the year on 1969. Growing up in Goodooga, a small aboriginal community in north west New South Wales.

Warren feels being a self-taught artist as he believes it gives him the opportunity to reflect himself into the art and music he creates, showing who he is and where he comes from. And also allows him not to conform into the status quo giving the chance to experiment and create new and innovative art pieces.

Warren is the founder of Tin Camp Studios. A relocatable, music, art and workshop space, that debuted in 2021. The Tin Camp Studios are styled on 1940s-50s Aboriginal tin camps – those often found on the outskirts of townships across Australia, back then and still now. Intended to be a safe, welcoming space for people to gather and share stories through many mediums. The Tin Camp includes a recording studio. It is a place for music and story to go on the record for the next generation to appreciate, enjoy and learn from.

The sounds and stories he creates are of his life and times to this day he has taken his music to next level it is always fresh and new. Land and country have always influenced the journey Warren has taken with art.