Darwin Festival - A Glimpse

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Lipstick and Land Rights: matriarchal sovereign history and the cyber frontier
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Lorna Munro

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We Don't Fabricate, We Weave: Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) and Ngarrindjeri women’s resistance
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Dominic Guerrera

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Reclaiming the Rock in Project Banaba: Creativity, survival and agricultural colonialism in the Pacific
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Katerina Teaiwa

Published 15 December 2021
Gallery Lane Cove
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Lipstick and Land Rights: A poetic response
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Lorna Munro

Published 15 December 2021
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Woven Selves, Entangled Countries: Weaving across borders
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Dameeli Coates

Published 15 December 2021
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Sovereign city, sovereign self and Warrior Woman Lane
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Timmah Ball

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Gallipoli Art Prize
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Miyurr Mi:wi: Working from home in the spirit of Country
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Tracey Rigney

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My Sovereign Mind: A practice in two parts
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Hayley Millar Baker

Published 15 December 2021

Overview of the Festival of Darwin with its temporary visual art installations 'art head land' by 18 artists. For the summer of 1996.

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