Our Logo & Artwork

The artwork is a modern representation of IGPTN to reflect core principles of healing, spirit, education, and community. The central focus of the piece are the oche Healing Hands which symbolises healers and healing.

The cerulean healing waves depicts the influence of healers to help boost others and heal individuals that reverberates and radiates out and extends to communities.

The tan circles represent the gatherings of peoples and connections reflecting the journeys we all take as healers, educators and doctors and the importance of family and communities in our life journey and the influence we have on others around us.

The blue water which is depicted speaks to the travel and connections made wide and far over country and water. The red trio represents blood which is integral to healing and the life force it contains.

The artwork was created in consultation with IGPTN representation and was constructed dynamically.

Dr Angela Forrest is a Galamai/Kalaamaya Noongar woman living and working in lutruwita (Tasmania). She was the inaugural Chair of IGPRN now IGPTN and is inordinately proud of how much it has grown and the wonderful doctors and people who have come through and played a part.

Angela is passionate about the autonomy of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in health and education and all areas of life. Angela currently works in General Practice in Hobart and at the University of Tasmania.

Weaving, painting modern and traditional Aboriginal art and passing on skills to the younger generations is something she loves to do.