Critics

On the iconophilia website, full text of Ian McLean's paper : Anxious identities: reinventing Australia in a changing world presented at the symposium at the Royal Academy 1 November 2013


Ron Radford  (Director of the National Gallery of Australia and a co-curator of the exhibition)

writes in the Brisbane Times on 18 December 2013 ' Shedding light on the art of our continent'

The British have not been as exposed to contemporary Aboriginal art compared with, say, the French, Germans, Canadians or Americans. Indigenous painting was too baffling for some of the older British critics.