Lin Onus is an urban aboriginal artist who Is known for being ‘a man ahead of his times’. He was the son of an Aboriginal father Bill Onus, a Yorta Yorta man from the aboriginal community of Cummeragunja and a Scottish mother, Mary McLintock Kell. His artworks are influenced and inspired by the surrounding environment in which he lived, his background and the endeavour to discover his own identity. Onus combined both indigenous and Western art styles to create a hybrid style that spoke across cultures, bridging the gap between his two ancestries. His cultural education was strengthened by his visit to Cummeragunja and the stories that his uncle Arron Briggs ‘the old man of the forest’ would tell him. They would often sit by the banks of the
