Australian Channel 9 News reports on Prince Charles' visit to Australia at the Royal Academy
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And reported in Royal Central here
Nicolas Rothwell 'Hanging in a post-colonial disconnect ' in The Australian 6 December 2013
'The indigenous way of seeing the country is being woven more and more
into the nation's understanding of its landscape - but that art's
resonance is Australian, not global.
...
On its own, bereft of background, seen by eyes without sympathy, it
remains hieratic, jumbled; it is patterns, emblems, decoration, nothing
more. For us, it may reveal a degree of meaning; for outsiders, it is
the exotic, resistant unknown. This is the divide Australia at
the Royal Academy has brought out. And if indigenous art makes its
strongest appeal only to those implicated in its stories, if it remains
mute without interpretation, is it somehow diminished? Are we?'
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