Koori Radio Building

ARTIST: Blak Douglas

DATE: 2008

This mural, designed by Blak Douglas who also painted the Redfern Community Centre and is based in Redfern, is on the Gadigal Information Service Aboriginal Corporation (GIS) building which houses the Koori Radio station.

iThe artwork is intended to pay homage to the important history of the site. The design is inspired by the story of Kevin Gilbert and his writing of the play, The Cherry Pickers. It was written whilst Gilbert was serving time in prison and was scribed on to toilet paper and smuggled outside, where it became the first Aboriginal play to be published.

Gadigal Information Service Aboriginal Corporation (GIS) recognises 25 years of survival in 2018 as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community organisation, securing spaces for our mobs across the airwaves. GIS was incorporated in 1993 as an not-for-profit Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders community organisation.

GIS was invited to return to its home community in 2008 when the Indigenous Land Corporation ("ILC") built a new office block on the site of the original National Black Theatre on Cope Street, Redfern. The state-of-the -art recording and broadcasting studios on the third floor were equipped through government funding. GIS obtained ownership of this top floor from the ILC on 22 January 2015.

Description from; https://www.kooriradio.com/history.html