About the artist

Segar Passi
b. 1942, Mer (Murray Island)
Clan group: Dauareb
Language group: Meriam Mir

Segar Passi, who as a child taught himself to paint, has been making art for over six decades. In the 1960s he was one of eight Torres Strait Island artists asked by anthropologist Margaret Lawrie to record, in paintings and drawings, the history, culture, flora and fauna of the Torres Strait.