A seafaring indigenous people, they were proud and dignified, deriving their spirituality from ancestral ties to the land, the sea and the sky. Continuing a strong cultural tradition of storytelling, Brian Robinson’s prints and sculptures read as episodes of an intriguing and grand epic. Set within compelling visual puzzles intertwined with organic patterns, the encounters between cultural traditions are told. Like an arcane manuscript, Strait Protean charts a course imbued with customs and mythology of the Torres Strait Island people, referencing classical art and pop culture icons, where forms and characters are co-opted into the spirit world of the Islander’s imagination.