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Reflections Holiday Park
2022
Reflections Holiday Parks specialise in back to nature breaks, leaving you refreshed, restored and rejuvenated. Reflections Holiday Parks manages 37 holiday parks and 43 community reserves of NSW Country. When Reflections Holiday Parks approached us to bring to life the story of their Reconciliation Action Plan Artwork, Reflections made it clear that reconciliation to them is a promise that they were making as an organisation. A commitment to broaden their thinking, to consider and seek out First Nations histories and to develop trusted relationships that create space and take the time to build meaningful partnerships. After engaging and seeing two different storytelling styles from Lauren and Leticia, they selected Lauren’s design which they bought to life with Leticia’s colour palette.
After meeting with the Reflections Reconciliation Action Plan team and hearing of the story that they wanted to portray through their RAP artwork, Lauren developed an artwork that showcases a yarning circle in the centre, representing the connection between the park and local communities. The surrounding circles symbolize different communities and the bottom section depicts the landscape and wildlife of the areas where the parks are located. The kangaroo tracks represent the wildlife of these areas, but also represent travel and journeying, acknowledging that people travel from all over to visit Reflections Holiday Parks. Kangaroos cannot move backwards and are a representation of moving forward to learn and grow on their reconciliation journey.
The artwork represents the connection to country, the wider community and the process of learning and strengthening relationships, emphasising that Reflections Holiday Parks are a place for healing, connection, and celebration of Aboriginal land.
This symbol represents the different countries on which Reflections Holiday Parks stand. The connectivity between Reflections Holiday Parks and community represent a sharing of knowledge and community connections.
This symbol represents a coming together of people, a place for community and families to heal, repair, connect, explore and celebrate that we are living on Aboriginal land.
This symbols represents Reflections Holiday Parks, the people that work at Reflections and also the communities of the land on which Reflections Holiday Parks stand.
This symbol represents the stars. Our First Nations people had connections to Country, skies, seas and the stars. This is a representation of the night sky and the stars that guide us through the night.
Our Ancestors guide us through life’s journey. They cared for this land before us
and guide us to care for this land while we are here. They also equip us and teach us to pass on our knowledge for our Elders to come, after we have gone back to the dreaming.
Our team absolutely loved the process of working with Reflections Holiday Park and was honoured to be able to translate their story to a visual medium. Reflections Holiday Park has since launched their Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan and celebrated by hosting an event sharing the story behind the artwork and even had their cultural elements printed onto cupcakes to celebrate the occasion. We loved working with the Reflections team and look forward to supporting their Reconciliation Action Plan journey in the future!
Lauren Eyles from Reflections Holiday Park shared her experience in working with the Yirra Miya team, stating
We would like to acknowledge the Nations of which we come from, live upon and create within. We’d like to acknowledge and pay our respects to our Elders past, present and future emerging. We’d also like to extend our gratitude for the gifts from Mother Earth, our Ancestors, our Creators and our communities. We thank them for the knowledge and guidance we embrace as proud First Nations people embarking on our creative journeys and having the space to share through cultural storytelling and design. We therefore, would like to say GAWAYMBANHA ‘Welcome’ as you join us in YIRRA MIYA ‘growing together’.
