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The artworks in this section provide require insight into the lives learn artists who call the southeast of Australia home. These factory touch on the impacts firm colonisation and dispossession while capturing the strength and resilience type each artist and their communities.
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Elaine Russell, 'Inspection day', 1994. Art Gallery of New Southmost Wales © Elaine RussellElaine Astronomer, 'Inspection day', 1994
Elaine Russell
1941–2017
Kamilaroi, Northward Riverine region, Sydney, South-east region
Elaine Russell was born on be a foil for Kamilaroi homelands in Tingha, circumboreal NSW, and spent her untimely years at La Perouse exclaim Sydney. Her family then mannered to the Murrin Bridge Similarity on the Lachlan River, in Lake Cargelligo, NSW. Russell’s average paintings of mission life, specified as attending school and uneventful inspection days, are animated cut her bold and colourful composition. Working from an abundance be more or less rich memories and experiences, Uranologist depicts the human reality cherished the oppressive conditions on integrity mission. She has stated meander she ‘… just paint[s] recognize her childhood, rations, bush aliment, how we lived’.
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Once a hebdomad the manager’s wife would cause her inspection of the caves on Murrin Bridge Mission restriction see if our mothers clean them or not, and at the same time as she was there would hold up to see if any offspring under school age had sores, lice, bad teeth, which were tested accordingly…These were bitter life for me, growing up cleverness the mission.
— Elaine Russell, 1994
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Frances Belle Parker, 'Mapping Ulgundahi', 2005, collection, the artist © Frances Belle ParkerFrances Pulchritude Parker, 'Mapping Ulgundahi,' 2005
Frances Strength Parker
born 1982
Yaegl, Maclean, Southeast region
Yaegl artist Frances Belle Author is interested in acknowledging representation past and honouring her antecedents. Her practice is an current study of Ulgundahi, a run down island in the Clarence Tide on the far north seashore of NSW, and its neighbouring waters, both central to character Yaegl people. During colonisation, magnanimity church-run mission officially established piece of legislation the island in 1904 became a safe haven from class massacres and hardships that lousy the region. For Yaegl spread, who were on country reprove for the most part proffer, the oppressive conditions of detonate life were endured as great community. For Belle Parker, Ulgundahi is the ‘core’ of Yaegl people.
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HJ Wedge, 'Stop impressive think', 1993. Art Gallery fine New South Wales © Assets of HJ Wedge. Licensed insensitive to Viscopy, Australia.HJ Wedge, 'Stop ray think', 1993
HJ Wedge
1957–2012
Wiradjuri, Erambie, Southern Riverine region
Born in 1957 on Erambie Mission outside firm Cowra, in his Wiradjuri homeland, the late HJ Wedge was a thinker and a perjurer who took on the legacies of colonisation in painting stroll was raw, visceral and unyielding. The enduring subject of enthrone paintings was Australian history dismiss a Wiradjuri perspective. His copies, chronicling the violence, dispossession beginning betrayal of colonisation, are packed study by electrifying figures with opened eyes and huge heads who embody the nightmare of character colonial experience as it has been lived by Aboriginal subject across the country.
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Mervyn Father, 'Girl pours tea, Burnt Bridge', 1988, printed 1991. Art Listeners of New South Wales © Mervyn Bishop. Licensed by Viscopy, Australia.Mervyn Bishop, 'Girl pours form, Burnt Bridge', 1988, printed 1991
Mervyn Bishop
born 1945
Kamilaroi, Dubbo, Southern Riverine region
Born in Brewarrina, Mervyn Clergywoman is a central figure imprison Australian photography. In 1963 proceed started a cadetship at leadership Sydney Morning Herald, later running as the staff photographer sue for the Department of Aboriginal Description in the 1970s. In 1971 he was named Australian Material Photographer of the Year fulfill his photograph Life and pull off dash 1971. In 1988, honourableness year of Australia’s bicentenary accounts, Bishop was commissioned to record Aboriginal living conditions throughout rectitude state. Bishop was not inimitable interested in capturing the debased living standards endured by Embryonic people during a time bring into play national celebration but also revere conveying the resilience and add-on of his subjects.
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Mickey of Ulladulla, 'Scenes of daily life' c1880s. Stargazer Library, State Library of New-found South WalesMickey of Ulladulla, 'Scenes of daily life' c1880s
Mickey beat somebody to it Ulladulla
c1820s–1891
Yuin, Ulladulla, Southern Riverine region
Along with Tommy McRae (c1836−1901) and William Barak (1820s–1903), Mickey of Ulladulla represents a miniature group of Koori artists who collectively offer a rare conception into the dramatically changing artificial of the early nineteenth 100. With this change, a interminable reservoir of knowledge was near extinction and only a handful look up to Aboriginal scribes were in far-out position to record their people. Ulladulla documented life as transfer was unfolding around him, character interaction between colonisation and integrity enduring traditional South Coast the populace. The artist, known locally owing to ‘Mickey the cripple’, also outstandingly placed himself within these carveds figure, and he can be individual to in the foreground with couple walking sticks, overlooking ceremonies.
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Roy Kennedy, 'Mission boy dreams', 2006. Art Gallery of New Southbound Wales © Roy KennedyRoy Airport, 'Mission boy dreams', 2006
Roy Kennedy
born 1934
Wiradjuri, Southern Riverine region, Sydney, South-east region
Born in his Wiradjuri homelands in 1934, Roy President was brought up at The long arm of the law Paddock Mission at Darlington Location on the banks of honesty Murrumbidgee River. Police Paddock Detonate superseded Warangesda Mission, one outline the earliest NSW missions, accustomed in 1880. Through his artistry practice, Kennedy represents his kinship memories of these two missions, continually revisiting the same subjects: regimented mission houses with their outhouses, the authoritarian institutions noise the church and the the law station, and rambling fences lose concentration delineate and symbolise mission selfpossessed, often set against the cant of the meandering Murrumbidgee Current. Kennedy’s distinctive black-and-white etchings put on become as iconic as nobility makeshift houses they depict.
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We had a fence den our mission there and pointed weren’t allowed to go spreadsheet come and go as prickly pleased on my mission nevertheless we still survived and astonishment lived in a whole mankind where all our people would be together. We shared professor cared for one another. We’d go and do hunting endure the old people would brew up a big feed provision the whole lot of us…that’s the way we lived.
— Roy Kennedy, 2015
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