an Aboriginal Culinary Journey™
Celebrating 65,000 years of Australian food culture
As one of Australia’s leading global brands we invite people from around the world on a journey that combines our ancestral Australian art and food culture with the best of contemporary design.
This is an invitation to experience, celebrate and be part of maintaining the world’s oldest living food culture while giving back to the artists and communities who have shared their art and stories for the collection.
Learn about the oldest living food culture in history
CURATOR
ALISON PAGE
CURATOR
Alison Page is a Wadi Wadi and Walbanga woman of the Yuin nation. Currently Adjunct Associate Professor in Design at the University of Technology Sydney, founder of the National Aboriginal Design Agency and member of many cultural Boards including the National Australia Day Council, The Art Gallery of South Australia and the National Australian Maritime Museum.
In 2006, Alison and Richard Hoare, Breville’s Design and Innovation Director began a conversation about bringing Indigenous art to life on products. Since then, the idea has developed as a passion project for both Alison and Breville.
"When we step into a modern kitchen, it’s easy to forget that our wondrous appliances - while efficient, convenient, practical and aesthetic - provide the same service that our ancient ancestor’s campfires, grinding stones and stone age tools did over millennia."
Alison Page – Curator
“When it comes to food preparation and cooking, Indigenous Australians have been at it longer than most.”
"It has recently been demonstrated archeologically that they are the world’s oldest bread makers, harvesting ancient grains that were gluten free and packed full of nutrients. Now that’s a discovery!"
"Even their most basic tools for preparing food were layered with a 65,000-year history told through symbols and stories, which are painted, burned and etched into their objects."
"These stories of family and sustainability are the stories that the world is ready to hear."
"An Aboriginal Culinary Journey combines ancient stories with the best of contemporary design. An invitation to experience the world’s oldest living culture."
Alison Page – Curator
Each artist owns the copyright for their work, which is exclusively licenced to Breville for an Aboriginal Culinary Journey range. They receive a royalty for each product produced.
LUCY SIMPSON
WARLIMPIRRNGA TJAPALTJARRI
Yukultji (NOLIA) Napangati
YALTI NAPANGATI
Painting the Artwork
After trialling regular flat canvas and then wrapped canvas, it was concluded the best approach was to paint directly onto the product. This was the only way to faithfully represent not only the artwork (without significant editing), but also the process of the artist, and their relationship to the form and shape of the objects they were working with.
THE COLLECTION
Toaster
DHUNBARRBIL
Place of many seeds ready for grinding
By Lucy Simpson
Breville is donating 100% of our profits from the sale of the 'Aboriginal Culinary Journey' range to create opportunity for Indigenous Australians. We expect to raise just over $1,000,000 AUD through the sale of these items globally. Half of the funds will be used to support the National Indigenous Culinary Institute's work to create employment opportunities for aspiring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander chefs and the 'Indi-Kindi Program' by the Moriarty Foundation to support better childhood nutrition and sharing Indigenous Food Culture. The other half will be used for Indigenous scholarships and initiatives at the University of Technology Sydney to create pathways for employment in engineering, technology and design.
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