This issue is the second in a series showcasing the work of Indigenous artists and designers around Australia. The first, issued in 2024, featured the art of Chern’ee Sutton, a proud Kalkadoon woman from the Mount Isa region. This year’s stamps are the work of respected Western Australian painter and designer Kevin Bynder. Bynder was born in 1975 in Boorloo/Perth to a Whadjuk-Yued Nyungar mother and a Widi-Badimia Yamatji father. The stamp imagery is based on the ancestral lands, totems and culture of Bynder’s maternal and paternal grandparents. Their Country includes the Perth region, Western Australia’s mid-west and the region north of Perth. Ngana Nyitting means “My Dreaming” in the Yamatji (Ngana) and Nyungar (Nyitting) languages. Bynder began painting at the age of 23, first in Fitzroy Crossing and then in Broome, where he had his first studio. Since then, he has established a successful national and international career from his merchandise company and art studio at Wangara, a suburb in Perth’s north. His many commissioned designs and artworks include commemorative coins for the Perth Mint, Indigenous jumpers for the AFL and NBL Perth Wildcats, murals and works on canvas.

The text in Italics is by Kevin Bynder