Return to Queensland's Top End: Lockhart River Art Centre

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Chantelle Woods anecdotes of her journey into the heart of the Lockhart River on the Cape York of Far North Queensland, during an art workers Traineeship through the Queensland Art Gallerys Story Place Exhibition. The relationships that formed between the women, the art and the environment.

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