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On The Bank On The Brink
on the bank on the brink is a gathering of significant drawings from nineteenth-century, Aboriginal artist Tommy McRae and new works by First Nations artists Mia Boe and Phil Murray.
Through simple yet expressive line, Tommy McRae鈥檚 drawings document a time when traditional Aboriginal life was first intersected by colonial invasion in the Upper Murray River region. McRae鈥檚 vivid scenes of ceremony, corroboree, hunting, and fishing cast a retrospective lens on cultural life when his Country along the banks of Lake Moodemere, Wahgunyah was in rapid dispossession from his people.
The 鈥榓ct of recovery鈥� in which Mia Boe describes her practice resonates with the truth-telling of McRae鈥檚 drawings in tracing the aftershocks of historical trauma on First Peoples. Boe鈥檚 paintings parallel the sensitivity of McRae鈥檚 works in balancing the elongated figures and silhouetted animals that come together to act out scenes within the landscape.
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on the bank on the brink is a gathering of significant drawings from nineteenth-century, Aboriginal artist Tommy McRae and new works by First Nations artists Mia Boe and Phil Murray.
Through simple yet expressive line, Tommy McRae鈥檚 drawings document a time when traditional Aboriginal life was first intersected by colonial invasion in the Upper Murray River region. McRae鈥檚 vivid scenes of ceremony, corroboree, hunting, and fishing cast a retrospective lens on cultural life when his Country along the banks of Lake Moodemere, Wahgunyah was in rapid dispossession from his people.
The 鈥榓ct of recovery鈥� in which Mia Boe describes her practice resonates with the truth-telling of McRae鈥檚 drawings in tracing the aftershocks of historical trauma on First Peoples. Boe鈥檚 paintings parallel the sensitivity of McRae鈥檚 works in balancing the elongated figures and silhouetted animals that come together to act out scenes within the landscape.
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