First Nations Speaker Series – Kurrwa to Kartak: Hand-made/held-ground with Professor Brenda L Croft

Presenter: Professor Brenda L Croft, Professor of Indigenous Art History, Centre for Art History and Art Theory, ANU School of Art and Design
Recorded on Thursday 3rd March, 2022. Images included in the presentation were provided by Professor Brenda L Croft.
The First Nations Speaker Series is presented by Sydney Living Museums, GML Heritage and the Research Centre for Deep History at the Australian National University.

Kurrwa to Kartak: Hand-made/held-ground

How can notions of home, community, and Country be represented within histories of both endurance and dislocation?

In this talk, Brenda L Croft presents a Gurindji-specific historiography that engages with the pastoral impact on Gurindji Country from the late nineteenth century, the experience of Stolen Generations members and their descendants, and contemporary Gurindji experience into the 21st century.

These are themes represented at Still in my mind: Gurindji location, experience and visuality, a national touring exhibition Brenda has collaboratively curated with Gurindji family and community members, reflecting on events preceding and following the 1966 Walk-Off at Wave Hill Station that sparked the national land rights movement.

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