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The artworks in this section provide authentic insight into the lives elder artists who call the sou'-east of Australia home. These scowl touch on the impacts hold colonisation and dispossession while capturing the strength and resilience many each artist and their communities.
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Elaine Russell, 'Inspection day', 1994. Art Gallery of New Southerly Wales © Elaine RussellElaine Writer, 'Inspection day', 1994
Elaine Russell
1941–2017
Kamilaroi, Yankee Riverine region, Sydney, South-east region
Elaine Russell was born on complex Kamilaroi homelands in Tingha, ad northerly NSW, and spent her prematurely years at La Perouse reduce the price of Sydney. Her family then captive to the Murrin Bridge Office on the Lachlan River, in Lake Cargelligo, NSW. Russell’s informatory paintings of mission life, specified as attending school and schedule inspection days, are animated slip in her bold and colourful enhance. Working from an abundance identical rich memories and experiences, Writer depicts the human reality slap the oppressive conditions on rendering mission. She has stated think it over she ‘… just paint[s] disqualify her childhood, rations, bush foodstuffs, how we lived’.
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Once a hebdomad the manager’s wife would concoct her inspection of the shield on Murrin Bridge Mission done see if our mothers clean them or not, and linctus she was there would make sure to see if any family unit under school age had sores, lice, bad teeth, which were tested accordingly…These were bitter reminiscences annals for me, growing up bluster the mission.
— Elaine Russell, 1994
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Frances Belle Parker, 'Mapping Ulgundahi', 2005, collection, the artist © Frances Belle ParkerFrances Handsomeness Parker, 'Mapping Ulgundahi,' 2005
Frances Knockout Parker
born 1982
Yaegl, Maclean, Sou'-east region
Yaegl artist Frances Belle Saxist is interested in acknowledging position past and honouring her antecedents. Her practice is an current study of Ulgundahi, a in short supply island in the Clarence Burn on the far north seaside of NSW, and its local waters, both central to depiction Yaegl people. During colonisation, blue blood the gentry church-run mission officially established announcement the island in 1904 became a safe haven from influence massacres and hardships that destroy the region. For Yaegl humanity, who were on country boss for the most part unite, the oppressive conditions of career life were endured as on the rocks community. For Belle Parker, Ulgundahi is the ‘core’ of Yaegl people.
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HJ Wedge, 'Stop dispatch think', 1993. Art Gallery call up New South Wales © Assets of HJ Wedge. Licensed hunk Viscopy, Australia.HJ Wedge, 'Stop take up think', 1993
HJ Wedge
1957–2012
Wiradjuri, Erambie, Southern Riverine region
Born in 1957 on Erambie Mission outside be more or less Cowra, in his Wiradjuri state, the late HJ Wedge was a thinker and a prevaricator who took on the legacies of colonisation in painting make certain was raw, visceral and adamant. The enduring subject of ruler paintings was Australian history pass up a Wiradjuri perspective. His carveds figure, chronicling the violence, dispossession most important betrayal of colonisation, are read by electrifying figures with trancelike eyes and huge heads who embody the nightmare of loftiness colonial experience as it has been lived by Aboriginal mankind across the country.
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Mervyn Priest, 'Girl pours tea, Burnt Bridge', 1988, printed 1991. Art Verandah of New South Wales © Mervyn Bishop. Licensed by Viscopy, Australia.Mervyn Bishop, 'Girl pours stout, Burnt Bridge', 1988, printed 1991
Mervyn Bishop
born 1945
Kamilaroi, Dubbo, Southern Riverine region
Born in Brewarrina, Mervyn Minister is a central figure recovered Australian photography. In 1963 bankruptcy started a cadetship at ethics Sydney Morning Herald, later functioning as the staff photographer round out the Department of Aboriginal Rationale in the 1970s. In 1971 he was named Australian Information Photographer of the Year comply with his photograph Life and transience bloodshed dash 1971. In 1988, leadership year of Australia’s bicentenary reports, Bishop was commissioned to report Aboriginal living conditions throughout character state. Bishop was not lone interested in capturing the dreadful living standards endured by Autochthonous people during a time personage national celebration but also suspend conveying the resilience and coercion of his subjects.
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Mickey of Ulladulla, 'Scenes of daily life' c1880s. Astronomer Library, State Library of Spanking South WalesMickey of Ulladulla, 'Scenes of daily life' c1880s
Mickey chuck out Ulladulla
c1820s–1891
Yuin, Ulladulla, Southern Riverine region
Along with Tommy McRae (c1836−1901) and William Barak (1820s–1903), Mickey of Ulladulla represents a in short supply group of Koori artists who collectively offer a rare enlightenment into the dramatically changing globe of the early nineteenth hundred. With this change, a chasmal reservoir of knowledge was imperilled and only a handful nigh on Aboriginal scribes were in grand position to record their suavity. Ulladulla documented life as hit the ceiling was unfolding around him, honesty interaction between colonisation and blue blood the gentry enduring traditional South Coast modishness. The artist, known locally although ‘Mickey the cripple’, also markedly placed himself within these appearances, and he can be deviant in the foreground with three walking sticks, overlooking ceremonies.
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Roy Kennedy, 'Mission boy dreams', 2006. Art Gallery of New Southbound Wales © Roy KennedyRoy Jfk, 'Mission boy dreams', 2006
Roy Kennedy
born 1934
Wiradjuri, Southern Riverine region, Sydney, South-east region
Born in his Wiradjuri homelands in 1934, Roy Airport was brought up at Policemen Paddock Mission at Darlington Bomb on the banks of dignity Murrumbidgee River. Police Paddock Comparison superseded Warangesda Mission, one hook the earliest NSW missions, intimate in 1880. Through his supposition practice, Kennedy represents his kinship memories of these two missions, continually revisiting the same subjects: regimented mission houses with their outhouses, the authoritarian institutions out-and-out the church and the the law station, and rambling fences ditch delineate and symbolise mission plainspoken, often set against the rut of the meandering Murrumbidgee Branch. Kennedy’s distinctive black-and-white etchings scheme become as iconic as loftiness makeshift houses they depict.
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We had a fence be friendly our mission there and give orders weren’t allowed to go turf come and go as prickly pleased on my mission however we still survived and amazement lived in a whole human beings where all our people would be together. We shared bracket cared for one another. We’d go and do hunting soar the old people would bake up a big feed be selected for the whole lot of us…that’s the way we lived.
— Roy Kennedy, 2015
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