Winning Artwork Announced for the 2025 Indigenous Jersey Design Competition.

We would like to congratulate local artist Andrew Doyle, his artwork has been selected as the design for the Mackay Cutters 2025 Indigenous Jersey thanks to INDCO.

Pictured left to right: David Roberts, Andrew Doyle, Ben Orme.

Andrew is a proud Iman and Kaku-Yalanji man who grew up playing rugby league in Mackay. His artwork combines the history of the area as well as his ties to rugby league through his passion for the game and through his family. Andrew describes the story of his artwork below:

‘The story behind my artwork is bit of history. At the top of the piece, the blue and maroon stripes represent a connection to the 2013 Mackay Cutters team that took out the premiership, reflecting the jersey of that year. The bottom half of the piece is a throwback to the Mackay Sea Eagles teams of 1992 and 1993, again reflecting the jersey of those years. Mackay won back-to-back state league titles these years.’

‘The middle stripes represent the old coming into the new. Both generations having success and coming together as a club and community.’

‘The 3 circle designs at the top of the piece represent what the Mackay Junior Rugby League grounds were before BB Print Stadium. Each circle represents the fields that were there before, field one, field two and field three, the main field everyone wanted to play on. The two other circle designs represent the mod fields that were there before the carpark.’

‘The 3 sea eagle tracks pay tribute to the Mackay Sea Eagles teams of past and present. The Mackay Sea Eagles are a big part of the rugby league community in Mackay and I wanted to include that in the piece. Why there are 3 is to represent the 3 titles from 1992, 1993 and the Mackay Cutters Premiership win in 2013.’

‘And lastly, the footprints going across the artwork represent not only my own journey but the journey of my children and the journey of rugby league for us. With my children growing up in the same area that I did, walking the same route to trainings, games on Saturday and Wednesday school footy, and playing where I grew up playing. I had the privilege to represent the Mackay Sea Eagles on a number of occasions but never got to play for the Mackay Cutters. My daughter has been part of the Mackay Cutters system for a number of years now and she gets to represent them and our family. So the footprints are of me and my children walking the same journey and me passing my knowledge on to them.’

We’d like to thank our Indigenous Jersey Partner INDCO, a company with strong personal ties to the Indigenous community, INDCO aims to represent and empower diverse groups of people to work in their chosen field. They are a quality provider of fabrication services and specialised and skilled labour hire, diversifying in a broad number of industries such as mining, civil and construction, agriculture, transport and environmental rehabilitation.

Stay tuned in 2025 as we reveal Andrew’s artwork on our Indigenous Jersey.