Boneta-Marie

Boneta-Marie Mabo, Meriam, Munbarra & Nywaigi, a proud Aboriginal, Torres Strait and Southsea Islander , a prison abolitionist and artist. In 2017 she collaborated with the Royal Australian Mint in the design of a circulating commemorative 50c coin. In 2016 she was the inaugural artist-in-residence for the State Library of Queensland’s kuril dhagun Indigenous centre, in 2014 she won People’s Choice award in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Telstra Art Award. Boneta-Marie is the State Youth Programs Manager at Sisters Inside where she has work for twelve years. Sisters Inside is an independent community organisation, which exists to advocate for the human rights of women and girls in the criminal justice system. Boneta-Marie’s most recent body of work Colonial Seeds combines abolition and art, the history of girls incarceration since the colonisation of so called ‘Australia’ which will continue to be the focus of her art practice.