Cassie is from the Dja Dja Wurrung and Daungwurrung people from the Kulin Nation. She is a multi-disciplinary Indigenous artist. Her skills revolve around weaving, fashion and jewellery design, painting, ceramics, bushtukka and cultural education. All of Cassie’s works has a deep connection to Country, biodiversity and traditional sustainable living of the past, to carry on in the present, for future generations to witness and learn.
She is extremely passionate about teaching her skills to both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people of all ages. Her aim is to give participants the opportunity to learn and understand Aboriginal culture and develop knowledge of both historical and contemporary Aboriginal history.
“When someone else wears my designs, they’re wearing my culture, carrying the narrative of my ancestors, they are witnessing and learning our stories so that the stories can continue.”
Cassie is generous with sharing her knowledge, “it’s about sharing important messages, and the meaningfulness of caring for Country and being sustainable in everything we do.”
Wild Blak Arts is a 100% Aboriginal owned and operated business.
ABC Gardening Australia appearances
Millie Ross visits artist Cassie Leatham at an exhibition in the Koorie Heritage Trust Gallery at Federation Square in central Melbourne. Cassie is a Taungurung woman from the Kulin Nation, who lives in Gippsland in east Victoria. She teaches textiles at RMIT, bush skills all over the state, and works as a cultural educator as well as an artist.
2024: My Garden Path | Cassie Leatham Fisher-Patterson
We meet Cassie Leatham Fisher-Patterson, an artist from the Taungurung and Dja Dja Wurrung people from the Kulin Nation. She is a multidisciplinary artist, using a wide range of media including weaving, dance, jewellery and clothing design. She guides us around a deeply significant part of Taungurung Country, where there are grandmother trees where women used to give birth and scar trees.
Wild Blak: Celebrating Culture
In 2017, Cassie and Kelly Coleman from PeeKdesigns travelled together on a journey of cross-cultural awareness, personal growth and unity.
You can read about this journey and how Cassie interacts with communities through the following articles.
