Community gallery
What does consent look like to you? We explored this question with our community, equipping them to start meaningful conversations with adults and young people.
By learning more about sexual consent and talking about it, we’re better placed to show our kids what healthy and strong relationships look like.
The art of consent
Multicultural community members participated in a range of consent workshops. These workshops were a great way to spark conversations about consent and respectful relationships and help adults get on the same page.
As part of the workshops, participants created artworks to demonstrate what consent means to them. This creative approach helped break down barriers for diverse communities around language and cultural attitudes to sexual consent.
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Dilesh - Indian
Scale of points connecting in different boxes to symbolise people and changing nature of consent. -
Montoor - Syrian
Traffic lights to indicate concepts of consent – can start off as a ‘green light’ but then transition to a ‘red light’ and back again. -
Indra - Indian
Dark night and mountains referencing unknowns and importance to navigate consent in experiences. -
Cheila - Chinese
Nature representing growth and environments for consent – which is everywhere and required all the time. -
Karishma -Nepali
All individuals have a right to their body and can choose when they want to start or stop. Nobody can force you into anything. -
Lucia -Spanish
Consent must be affirmative, it must be clear and there must be a smile. You know when someone doesn’t give their consent by the look on their face. -
Mohammed - Lebanese
Consent is free to give and take. There must be consent given at all times. -
Leena - Assyrian
Consent must be given. It cannot be taken. I chose these colours because they are freeing and bright – like all people who can make their own decisions.
Multicultural community video
This video celebrates people coming together as a community to support and empower each other to learn about consent and respectful relationships. See how they created artworks to demonstrate what consent means to them.
Multicultural community artwork, by Emma Sjaan Beukers
Emma Sjaan Beukers is a designer and illustrator based in Naarm (Melbourne). Her designs use vibrant colours and dreamlike imagery to create a sense of adventure, childlike wonder, imagination and nostalgia.
About the artwork
Emma’s artwork takes inspiration from a range of creative works produced by community members to demonstrate their individual perspectives of sexual consent. It encompasses the concepts and unique interpretations into one overarching piece.
“The design uses hand-in-hand people, existing in this space of information, feelings, views and concepts of consent—the brinks, water and clouds. Smaller icons enhance that connection of self, others, education and consent. A rough brush for the lines and marks shows the handmade and personal connection to the reference images and the participants who made them.”
