Lisa Waup is a leading contemporary Gunditjmara weaver, printmaker, graphic artist, ceramicist and installation artist born in 1971. She is a founding director of Baluk Arts - Indigenous artists of Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula. Baluk Arts represents more than 200 Indigenous artists living on the Mornington Peninsula and is one of only two Aboriginal-owned art centres in Victoria. Lisa is of Torres Strait Islander and Victorian Gunditjamara heritage from south east Melbourne who was adopted at a young age. Her work is usually made of many layers or pieces that symbolise the layers of history and story that she is continually uncovering. This is epitomised in her two dimensional multi -media works in which she includes reports she found through the Freedom of Information Act relating directly to her and her family members. Lisa’s stitching symbolises reattaching fragments of history, and also the layers of her own story which she is continually uncovering about her heritage. This multi media work on paper includes a document which Lisa received through the Freedom of Information Act, called 'Order to Admit to the Care of the Childrens' Welfare Department' - a document that designed the fate of her birth mother. On top of the document she has stiched a finely woven protective shield to keep the information and document all as one. Works such as this, she says, connect an historical document with Indigenous Victoria linear designs, symbols and motifs that symbolise the ancient Indigenous history which is unknown and all but lost. Such works are an important vehicle for ensuring cultural continuity through art.