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first contact (2012)

Cotton handkerchiefs
Average 30 x 30 cm
Printed on personal family handkerchiefs, these images of early European depictions of Australian flora and fauna, symbolise the first contact between colonial explorers and the local indigenous people. (The original images were sourced from research at the Australian Museum Library and are reproduced with their permission.) The choice of handkerchiefs, decorated with stain-like images of the early representations or ‘first contact’ impressions with the Sydney Harbour area, suggest a complex and ambivalent relationship with our origins as a nation.

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    • Re-Wilding
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    • Bed Chamber
    • Les Sculptures Refusee Residency and Exhibition
    • Not Terra Nullius >
      • Not Terra Nullius
      • Not Terra Nullius 11
    • Redeeming Love
    • Colonial Sampler series >
      • Diary sampler
      • Artefact of Colonialism
      • my mother told me
      • Colonial Legacy
    • Wallpaper Series >
      • Wallpaper
      • Wallpaper - After Agnes
      • Court House Wallpaper
      • Parliament House Wallpaper
      • The Meadows Wallpaper
    • Bearing Witness
    • Tethered
    • Callan Park Rainforest Gully Installation
    • Project Anywhere
    • Frolic Freeze
    • Lost Threads
    • Palmyra
    • Territory >
      • Territory
      • Territory (II)
    • Grace
    • Water Room
    • Convict Wall
    • The Field
    • Call of the Wild
    • Grove
    • Earth
    • First Contact
    • Clean Washing
    • Architectural works
    • Residencies >
      • Primrose Park
      • Coal Loader
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