Description / Inspiration

According to Alira’s artist, Isabell Moran, the design represents the ‘Circle of Life’, symbolic of Aboriginal culture and relationships and showing the various circles of life from camp to camp and waterhole to waterhole.

Hello Koalas sculptures often move around and following placement at Sea Acres Rainforest Centre and then Settlement City, Alira recently moved to Port Macquarie Airport, which services over 230,000 people a year and is the 5th largest regional airport in NSW.

Artist Biography

Isabell Moran was a practising artist for over 40 years. An elder of local Biripi/Dunghutti nations, Isabell founded and ran the Bindi Cultural Centre, Wauchope for many years. She exhibited her work widely and her artwork has been sold both nationally and internationally.

Isabell was one of the concept design artists for the Cowarra Dam Public Art project, a partnership with Port Macquarie Hastings Council Waterwise, North Coast TAFE and Bunyah Local Aboriginal Land Council. Isabell has always made a great contribution to the local community, and recently donated a number of artworks to the new palliative care unit at the Wauchope Hospital.