Royal Mail vs McQueen: A very public memorial for the dead

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

Published 24 January 2022
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We Don't Fabricate, We Weave: Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) and Ngarrindjeri women’s resistance
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Dominic Guerrera

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

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Woven Selves, Entangled Countries: Weaving across borders
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Dameeli Coates

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Sovereign city, sovereign self and Warrior Woman Lane
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Timmah Ball

Published 15 December 2021
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Miyurr Mi:wi: Working from home in the spirit of Country
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Tracey Rigney

Published 15 December 2021
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My Sovereign Mind: A practice in two parts
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Hayley Millar Baker

Published 15 December 2021

Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen’s recent work 'Queen and Country' (2003-2010) overwhelmingly embodies the complexities and possibilities for memorial-making and public art today.

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