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December 06, 2005
I did manage to eventually see the East Kimberley exhibition at Parliament House, which I mentioned here and here.
I even managed to write down the names of the artists in the show. I plan to introduce the artists over the next month, as I find the work to be extremely important.
Here is one artist:
Peggy Patrick, Sink Hole Bow River, ochre on linen
Peggy's work in the Parlaiment House exhibition was entitled Mistake Creek:
Peggy Patrick, MISTAKE CREEK MASSACRE BOAB, 2004
Peggy Patrick is one of the people who bore witness to the massacre at Mistake Creek in the early 20th century.
I guess this kind so work can be seen as part of a project of giving Australia's Indigenous peoples a voice to express their perspective on Australian history in the form of story telling that cuts against the conservative traditon that justifies and silences the colonial injustices on the colonial frontier.
It stands for a direct challenge to the Kantian aesthetic tradition of a distinterested art divorced from politics and moraliy.
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