Jo Rootsey: Painting Country

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The five phases of Aboriginal art in Australia
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Djon Mundine

 

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palawa kani: Expressing the power of language in art and the museum context
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Reconnecting the Yaghan community to cultural belongings 90 years on
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Looking for murnong
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Kin‑dling and other radical relationalities
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Making Inuit art in the moment
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Weaving memory, living embodiment
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Freja Carmichael

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Dina Ibrahim looks at the Joe Rootsey Retrospective curated by Bruce McLean at the Queensland Art Gallery in 2010 to find an artist who in his short life achieved compelling evocations of his relationship to country.

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