A Group Exhibition
Exhibition dates: Tue 27 May to Sat 7 June 2014
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MONUMENTS TO THE FRONTIER WARS
TUESDAY 27 MAY – SATURDAY 7 JUNE 2014
OPENING Tuesday night 27 May 2014
6-8pm
To be opened by Henry Reynolds, one of Australia’s best known historians and author of the book ‘Forgotten War’.
A group exhibition visually acknowledging the wars conducted on Australian soil between the early settlers and Aboriginal nations.
Blak Douglas (aka Adam Hill)
Will Coles
Bob Cooney
Michael Cook
Lynda Draper
Peter Gardiner
Ross Gibson
Franck Gohier
Amala Groom
Chayni Henry
Alan Jones
Leonie Lane
Chips Mackinolty
Teena McCarthy
Chico Monks
D’Arcy O’Connor
Tim Price
Bligh Twyford-Moore (Total Bore)
Ruth Waller
Toni Warburton
Jason Wing
Toby Zoates
In 1880 the ethnographers Lorimer Fison and Alfred Howitt wrote:
‘It may be stated broadly that the advance of settlement, has, upon the frontier at least, been marked by a line of blood. The actual conflict of the two races has varied in intensity and duration …but the tide of settlement has advanced along a ever-widening line, breaking the native tribes with the first waves and overwhelming their wrecks with its flood’.
Kamilaroi and Kurnai, first published 1880.