To facilitate the development of the artwork required for our website and future community and cultural activities, we have engaged Howard Butler a renowned Aboriginal artist to provide a painting depicting the goals and aspirations of Wadda Mooli.  

Wadda Mooli is about creating partnerships and mentoring young and mature indigenous people to learn the intricacies of national and international procurement and logistics, whilst working directly with customers and suppliers.

We want to pass on our knowledge of business (the commercial aspects of making a sustainable profit) whilst taking into account the community and cultural aspects of indigenous life, particularly art.

Howard (Joe) Butler is an international artist and has experience in sharing his skills, knowledge and passion with the Queensland community through, for example, the Whanu Binal program - a program with Arrow Energy and CQ University. His wife Kaylene is also driven to pass on knowledge to all members of the community having worked tirelessly to jointly create the Saltwater Arts Collective and programs for NAIDOC week.

“I want to pass on all the information I have, all the knowledge. I have been a professional artist for many years, I’ve been commissioned to craft artworks for businesses, I’ve also run art workshops at TAFE In Rockhampton and also at some correctional facilities with inmates, teaching them how to draw and paint, as well as cultural awareness.”

We hope that Howard and Kaylene will share their passion and the practicalities of an artists’s life through Wadda Mooli.