Heart and home
When Ngarrindjeri artist Amanda Westley was sixteen, she drew her family tree for a history class, the branches sprawling over two big sheets of poster paper. On one piece sat her great-great-grandfather William McHughes, the respected Ngarrindjeri stonemason from Raukkan, on the shore of Lake Alexandrina. She understood the importance of these connections, but many had been lost to her, remaining flat on the page.
Years later, in a very twenty-first century way, William McHughes would leap off that page, carried forward through the intervening years by Facebook. In April 2018 Amanda posted a photo of William on her social media accounts, identifying her family connection
