10.03.2022

Learning Aboriginal Painting with SEM Phoenix

Ms Bugden designs a basketball jersey.

Congratulations to our own Ms Katie Bugden (Secondary School English teacher) whose art design was recently chosen for the South East Melbourne Phoenix Basketball team’s jersey for their indigenous round.

In the lead-up to the game, Katie was joined by members of the basketball team Captain Kyle Adnam and Dane Pineau as well as some Year 7 CDT boys, who are currently completing a unit on Indigenous art.

Katie Bugden, a Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi woman, designed the jersey with the focus being Ngiyani (pronounced guy-anni) meaning ‘we all’ in Pama-Nyungan. ‘We all’ connects to Phoenix’s core value of community connection and it was this pillar of the club that heavily influenced Bugden’s design.

Together the boys and basketballers were inspired to learn about the meaning behind Katie’s design and paint their own story on canvases as well as painting Kyle’s game day shoes for the round!

We’re hoping the team will be back at BGS for some basketball tips in the near future.