Guardian summary of launch
Jonathan Jones review 21 April 2015
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| Kungkarangkalpa (detail) Kunmanara Hogan, Tjaruwa Woods, Yarangka Thomas, Estelle Hogan, Myrtle Pennington. Tjuntjuntjara Great Victoria Desert Western Australia 2013. |
'What is civilisation? Westerners tend to think it has something to do with Greek statues and classical music. No wonder they failed to recognise it when they saw it in the great southern continent that James Cook claimed as a British possession in 1770. The expressions of civilisation that could be clearly seen all over Australia were so different and so unfamiliar that Aboriginal culture was denied to even exist.
No people has been quite so consistently disparaged by Europeans as Indigenous Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, whose tragic story is movingly told in this thought-provoking exhibition.'
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