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The Returning Indigenous Corporation

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To Gather, Together • Bundjalung Country
Not-for-profit Indigenous owned and run charity

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We’re excited to announce our online art auction, featuring an extraordinary collection of donated works from some of Australia’s most celebrated First Nations and contemporary artists.

This auction supports The Returning to deliver programs and services on Bundjalung Country, including our Bundjalung Bush Food Nursery, and our Indigenous Artist Residency.

Every artwork you bid on helps us continue creating spaces where creativity, culture, and community come together to heal.

Featuring donated works from Matt Adnate, Dr Bronwyn Bancroft, Karla Dickens, Tracey Moffatt, Blak Douglas, Craig Ruddy, Shal, Heath Wae, Kitty Callaghan, Rubyrose Bancroft, Marcie O’Neill, Dan Kyle, and Sarah Darling.

Bidding is opening soon - comment “ART” to get access to the full catalogue by @the_returning_

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Our programs aren’t just services - they’re pathways back to cultural connection, community healing, and right relationship with Country.

From Elder retreats that honor our knowledge keepers, to postpartum support that wraps new mothers in care, to language classes that keep our voices alive - every program we run strengthens the threads that bind our community together.

This is healing through culture. This is community care in action.

Ready to be part of it? Swipe to learn more by @the_returning_

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We’re The Returning Indigenous Corporation - an Indigenous-led, women-centered organisation creating culturally-safe spaces for healing and connection on Bundjalung Country.

Our mission is simple: bring all people back into right relationship with self, community, and Country. We do this through circular leadership, community care, and programs that honor both cultural wisdom and modern needs.

This is who we are. This is how we work. This is why we exist.

Swipe to learn more about our approach taken in Bundjalung Nation by @the_returning_

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@rubyrosebancroft has generously donated their work to our online art auction, supporting arts and cultural programming at The Returning Indigenous Corporation.

Funds raised help us continue creating pathways for creative expression, cultural education, and community wellbeing - including our Artist Residency and the creative practices woven through everything we do.

Return to Country - Online Art Auction, October 4 - November 1.

Comment "ART" below and we'll send you the full catalogue, or link in bio to browse and bid now. by @the_returning_

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@shalxvx has generously donated their work to our online art auction, supporting arts and cultural programming at The Returning Indigenous Corporation.

Funds raised help us continue creating pathways for creative expression, cultural education, and community wellbeing - including our Artist Residency and the creative practices woven through everything we do.

Return to Country - Online Art Auction, October 4 - November 1.

Comment "ART" below and we'll send you the full catalogue, or link in bio to browse and bid now. by @the_returning_

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Old Ways <> New Ways October 16th- November 7th, 2026 Elevator ARI  2 Rural Street Lismore

Open Wednesday to Sunday - 10am to 4pm

Presenting works from 2026 Bulaan Dalang Galii Naa artists: Belle Budden, Dylan Bolt, Charlie (Noel) Caldwell, Bernie Harada, Cherie Leon, Tania Marlowe, Hannah Ranby, Emily Roberts-Field, Shannon Smith, Leah Walke, Kay Lee Williams

Come in and take a look at what the artists have been creating.
To buy art from artist’s is an investment in their on going practice, there is a beautiful array of unique prints, paintings, weaves, textiles and wood work.

Curator: Kylie Caldwell
Project Manager: Bindimu @_bindimu
Project: The Returning Aboriginal Artist Residency. @the_returning_.

@elevator_ari

Thank you to everyone who came and supported the launch last night xxx by @the_returning_

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@bronwynbancroft_studio @bronwynbancroft has generously donated their work to our online art auction, supporting arts and cultural programming at The Returning Indigenous Corporation.

Funds raised help us continue creating pathways for creative expression, cultural education, and community wellbeing - including our Artist Residency and the creative practices woven through everything we do.

Return to Country - Online Art Auction, October 4 - November 1.

Comment "ART" below and we'll send you the full catalogue, or link in bio to browse and bid now. by @the_returning_

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OLD WAYS <> NEW WAYS - ARTIST WORKSHOPS

Alongside our Old Ways <> New Ways exhibition, we're hosting three hands-on workshops giving the community a chance to engage directly with the creative practices of our 2026 artist residency cohort.

Weaving Workshop - Sat 17 Oct, 1-3pm
Join artists Tania Marlowe and Emily Roberts-Field as they share Bundjalung weaving techniques using endemic and invasive plant species.

Drawing Workshop - Sat 24 Oct, 1-3pm
Learn drawing and character development techniques with artist Shannon 'Monks' Smith.

Lino Printing Workshop - Sat 31 Oct, 10am-12pm
Discover lino cutting and printing techniques with artist Hannah Ranby.

These workshops are part of our Bulaan Dalang Galii Naa Gan Ngaa Leen Duu Indigenous artist residency, presented by The Returning Indigenous Corporation - supporting the development and visibility of local Indigenous artists across the region. The program's name was translated into Bundjalung by Roy Gordon when the residency began three years ago.

All welcome. Link in bio to book your spot.

The artist residency program is funded by Create NSW Regional Arts Fund taken in Lismore, New South Wales by @the_returning_

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OLD WAYS <> NEW WAYS | Opening Tonight Friday 16th October, 5–7pm

Artist Spotlight: Hannah Ranby

Hannah Ranby is a Gomeroi woman from Moree and a proud advocate for the inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives in the arts.

Her multidisciplinary practice spans printmaking, painting, and weaving, with lino printmaking at its core. Hannah's work reflects patterns in nature, her connection to the land, and a deep sense of place and being.

She recognises the arts as a vital platform for cultural expression, storytelling, and economic empowerment - ensuring Bundjalung artists' voices, traditions, and innovation continue to shape the creative landscape.

16 Oct – 7 Nov 2026
Opening: Fri 16 Oct, 5–7pm
Elevator ARI, 2 Rural St, Lismore

Curated by Kylie Caldwell

Featuring works by:
Belle Budden, Dylan Bolt, Charlie Caldwell, Bernie Harada, Cherie Leon, Tania Marlowe, Hannah Ranby, Emily Roberts, Shannon Smith, Leah Walke & Kay Lee Williams. taken in Elevator ARI by @the_returning_

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Future Series vol. 003 at The Lumber Yard:
“Bush Banquet” hosted during @dingofestival

Nourished by Sam @chefsamcampbell of @woodsbangalow & guest chef Mindy @msmindywoods of @karkallabyronbay

This incredible menu was inspired by GAGABALINGU (Goanna season, a time of abundance returning). Each dish made entirely from seasonal, local AND native ingredients!

Thank you to all the beautiful people that joined us under the jacaranda trees, seeing our community come together for connection and experiencing our culture truely warms our hearts. Also you are a part of something bigger, with 100% of net proceeds going to @the_returning_

Thank you also to everyone involved in making this event happen, and we hoped you had a lovely weekend at the first Dingo Festival.

See you again soon 🤍

- TLY Family taken in The Lumber Yard Bangalow by @the_returning_

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OLD WAYS <> NEW WAYS | Opening Friday 16th October, 5–7pm

Artist Spotlight: Tania Marlowe

Tania Marlowe is a Bundjalung Nyangbal cultural weaver and multidisciplinary artist, weaving with native, endemic, and introduced species harvested across the Ballina region.

After moving back to her traditional homelands of Nyangbal on Bundjalung Country, Tania's interest in weaving was sparked around 2001, reflecting on memories of her Aunties "telling yarns of their days of weaving on the river banks of their homelands at Cabbage Tree Island." These stories inspired her to continue this traditional practice, which now sits alongside textiles, painting, and printmaking in her broader creative work.

Tania also facilitates art workshops and community development programs, sharing cultural knowledge and traditional art-making techniques with others.

Weaving remains the heart of Tania's practice - inspired by, and in acknowledgement of, her Bundjalung Ancestors and Elders.

16 Oct – 7 Nov 2026
Opening: Fri 16 Oct, 5–7pm
Elevator ARI, 2 Rural St, Lismore

Curated by Kylie Caldwell

Featuring works by:
Belle Budden, Dylan Bolt, Charlie Caldwell, Bernie Harada, Cherie Leon, Tania Marlowe, Hannah Ranby, Emily Roberts, Shannon Smith, Leah Walke & Kay Lee Williams. taken in Elevator ARI by @the_returning_

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THREE COHORTS. ONE JOURNEY. A NEW CHAPTER THIS FRIDAY.

Our Bulaan Dalang Galii Naa Gan Ngaa Leen Duu Artist Residency has reached an exciting milestone - the third cohort exhibition opens this Friday, marking the 2026 artists' very first showing together.

Curated by Kylie Caldwell, Old Ways <> New Ways takes inspiration from Tyson Yunkaporta's Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, inviting us to sit with a simple but powerful question: which patterns in how we live sustain us, and which quietly cause harm?

Through the work of 11 emerging artists connected to Bundjalung Country, this exhibition honours cultural systems that have endured despite disruption and attempted erasure - knowledge and practice that continues to live, grow, and adapt.

WHERE: Elevator ARI, 2 Rural Street, Lismore
WHEN: This Friday, October 16th, 5-7pm
ON DISPLAY UNTIL: November 7th

Come walk through this exhibition with us. All welcome. by @the_returning_

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