I dropped into the NGV Fed Square before lunch last Friday and saw this Exhibit of Aboriginal Memorial logs as part of the COLONY exhibition opened last week
Needless to say there were droves of school students!
Since 1788 thousands of aboriginal people have died as a consequence of British expansion.
This forest of hollow logs made by aboriginal artists across Arnhem Land and of Pukumani plies by Tiwi artist of Melville and Bathurts islands stands as a large memorial to those who died defending their country in Australais Frontier Wars
The maintenance of customary mourning practices by male and female aboriginal artists and their strength to remain on Country are acts of defiance. Aboriginal people today continue to assert their sovereignty through their lived relationship with the land and each other and remain connected to their ancestors through the continuation of cultural practices like these
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| the detail is amazing |
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| beautiful paining painstaking work |
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| Theses are different in their colour as well as design |
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| The Forest |
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