How it all started…

“A few years ago as a teacher, I was encouraged by Aunty Gai Brown of Wreck Bay to facilitate an Art Workshop for the Aurora Education Foundation. Teaching for me is not limited to the school classroom and many of our future generation need support and “teachings” outside of this space. I began working in the school holidays to ensure that everyone even the most vulnerable have the access to Art, Culture and Well-being.

From this humble beginning community has placed me where I am today…..”

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jaz.corr@icloud.com

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Our Purpose

“What we do is an amalgamation of three core areas: Aboriginal Art, Culture & Wellbeing. I have taken my professional practice and extended this into the community. As a Visual Artist, Visual Arts Teacher, and Wayapa Wuurrk Practitioner I share stories through visual language, we share stories to build and maintain strong ethical community connections with both Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal people of Australia. Our purpose is to increase cultural awareness and promote Aboriginal Art, Culture and Wellbeing within our communities.”

  • Art

    Jaz Corr is an Aboriginal Visual Artist and highly regarded Aboriginal Educator who resides on the South Coast of NSW, Australia. She is a graduate of Curtin University in Western Australia (Boodja), holding a Bachelor of Arts (Double Major in Fine Art and Visual Culture), and a postgraduate Master of Education (Visual Arts) from the University of Wollongong. 

    She is widely recommended for her extensive experience working with the NSW Department of Education, NESA, the Arts Unit, TAFE, Bundanon, and multiple universities, where she has contributed her expertise across education, curriculum, and arts practice. 

    As a proud Dharawal woman, her curiosity about the world has inspired a diverse body of work that reflects a critical engagement with social, political, cultural, and environmental issues. Corr’s art practice demonstrates strong visual communication across both studio practice and art critical discourse. Her work has been exhibited in Sapporo, Japan; Shoalhaven Regional Gallery; Sydney Living Museums; Gerringong Library and Museum; Illawarra Aboriginal Corporation Cultural Centre; and Nan Tien Art Gallery, has featured on the ABC, Indigenous Literacy Foundation, and she is represented by Seven Marks Gallery. 

  • Culture

    “Living in harmony with their environment is what sustained Australian Aboriginal people to be one of the world’s oldest, continuous living culture – for over 100,000 years! Today, for most of us, we have become disconnected from our environment, from our tribe, from our food, and from our Spirit.” (Uncle Jamie Thomas)

    We provide opportunities for people to experience and participate in authentic culturally appropriate content to promote and sustain our culture. We work together to build and maintain a professional, strong, and ethical practice. Our focus and purpose is to increase cultural awareness and promote Aboriginal Art, Culture, and Wellbeing within our communities.

  • Well-being

    Wayapa® Wuurrk is an earth connection practice that is based on ancient Indigenous wisdom that focuses on taking care of the Earth as the starting point for creating Earth Mind Body Spirit Well-being.

    Through a combination of Earth mindfulness, narrative meditation, a series of physical movements, and taking action to look after the planet, Wayapa® provides a sense of belonging to the Earth while creating holistic well-being. Wayapa® is about creating a different lifestyle but for those just starting, it can be done as a physical practice, sitting or standing, or as a narrative meditation to slow us right down to sit in the stillness of nature.

    Jaz is professionally experienced and “highly recommended” in facilitating professional Wellbeing and Art Workshops as provided for Department of Education, Illawarra Aboriginal Health, ANSTO, University of Wollongong, Australian Council of Arts, Bundanon Trust, Esoteric Festival, Uniting, Google Head Office and Welcome to Country.