Year 12 Jacket Design 2025
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Monday, 07 Apr 2025
Murangan Yunti – Walun
(We all coming together)
The 2025 Year 12 jacket artwork was created in 2024 by current Year 12 student, Toby Betts, with the intention of being used for the College uniform Year 12 Jacket in 2025.
“I am a proud Kabi Kabi man and grew up on cattle stations – Mungerannie and Epsilon. We moved to Port Augusta in 2014 then the Adelaide Hills in 2015. I moved schools a lot, so I had to learn how to adapt to my environment"."For the past 4 years I have been learning the Ngarrindjeri language and culture. I think it is important for me as an Indigenous man to share language and culture with others and have led the College First Nations Focus Group. I hope to leave a positive legacy with Cornerstone College and want to leave my vision of bringing everyone together as a community.”
Toby Betts
The Artists Statement:
“I wanted to focus on where the college is located, on Peramangk Ruwi (Land). That is why the summit is the feature of the landscape with city lights behind it”.
"I wanted to add the idea of people coming together and sitting around a fire – representing coming together as a community and sharing yarns, food and common ground. Smoke is a large part and covers half the artwork with Indigenous drawings inside. This symbolises the networks we build along the way, about growth. When you have a fire, everyone looks at the fire and not the smoke. If you focus too hard on one thing you may miss out on everything else around it.
The water is flowing and moving through the artwork symbolising it nurturing life.
I always feature the kangaroo (wanggami) tracks in my artworks. Kangaroo’s always move forward, and cannot move backwards. To me this symbolises that there is more to look forward to in the future, and nothing lasts forever, and we need to keep moving forward.
Where I grew up is a very remote area, Mungerannie Station, and without the interruption of the lights from the city at night, the sky looks very different from the city. The stars and constellations are so clear and defined. So, growing up looking at these, I would always try to find my bearings and first find the Southern Cross (Yuki). It gives me that connection to my home, where my heart will always be.
The spears, hunting equipment and women’s tools symbolise that Aboriginal people are still here, and our culture is strong and resilient".
Toby's original artwork included further depth and it is pictured in the gallery below. Toby modified the detail to accommodate the Jacket design and printing methods used for garments. This was a long process, and we are very proud of the final design.