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Please join us for the opening of Myall Creek and beyond Touring Exhibition at the ANU School of Art & Design Gallery About this Event
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this invitation and exhibition contains images, and names of deceased persons.
On the afternoon of Sunday 10 June 1838, a group of eleven convicts and ex-convict stockmen led by a squatter, brutally slaughtered a group of twenty-eight Aboriginal men, women and children who were camped peacefully at the station of Myall Creek in the New England region. 180 years after these events a group of indigenous contemporary artists created works which explore the issues and complexities of this significant historic event and its aftermath locally and nationally.
Massacre at Myall Creek inspires artist to evoke spirit of survival
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By Lucie McHugh
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For artist Judy Watson, the trauma of the Myall Creek massacre recalled her family’s own story of survival: her great-great-grandmother Rosie escaped a massacre at Lawn Hill Gorge in north-west Queensland in the 1880s.
“Because Rosie escaped that massacre, our family survived,” said Watson, one of the artists featured in the
Myall Creek and Beyond exhibition at the University of Sunshine Coast Art Gallery.
Judy Watson, one of the artists featured in the exhibition Myall Creek and Beyond, wrapped muslin around trunks to represent “witness trees”.