Dylan grew up in Shepparton and spent many years with family at Cummeragunja (Barmah). He recounts that he I learnt how to get Sardi Grubs with his grandfather who passed away when Dylan was four years old. He says. " I learnt the majority of my culture from my uUncle (Mum's brother) and he's still teaching me now. I spent a lot of time at the Charles/Walker bend of Dungala (Murry River) second on the left hand side! When I was younger going to the ochre mines was a really spiritual experience for me and also going to the sandhills where our law and initiation took place over time." "I like to interpret from the stars because our Nan told us that the stars are our map and so I like to reference the night sky in my work like the Emu in the sky. I like to imagine that I am looking from above - a birds eye view! I also like to mirror that view - the land and sky in the one view in my work, which represents the connection between the sky and the earth." Dylan uses ochre in his paintings because he says' it feels more connected to my traditions. It has a spiritual feel for me." "My Uncle Shane has always told me I am from the Dulunyagan bloodline to Ulupna. Our language group in Yorta Yorta and this language is classed as endangered due to colonisation and language and culture being forbidden. This painting represents elders collecting bush plums and ruby salt bush on country . The snake represents Biami,the rainbow Serpent, the center landscape represents the medicine trees on Yorta Yorta country, where elders took medicine for healing spiritually , and physically , the flowers represent the growth of the salt bush and berries, the white hands sacredness the diamond on the land of Yorta Yorta. The snake represents that a man painted it and the U shape is the elders on country collecting roots."