Reconciliation - Beyond the Bridges & Sorry

Audio of Patrick Dodson Lecture at Parliament House on 25 May 2004 Text of Patrick Dodson Lecture at Parliament House on 25 May 2004

LIKAN'MIRRI - CONNECTIONS
THE AIATSIS COLLECTION OF ART

An extraordinary exhibition of rare and beautiful objects of art from Indigenous communities across Australia was at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery during March, 2004. The exhibition was presented by the ANU Institute for Indigenous Australia, through a collaboration with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, and was drawn entirely from the collections of AIATSIS. Many of the works have never been seen in public before.

Works in the exhibition dated as far back as the 1880s and according to its curator, Wally Caruana, the exhibition was able to "remind us that the negotiations between cultures, mediated through art, have a deeper history, a history which has laid the foundations upon which Indigenous artists today have been able to successfully respresent themselves and their societies in the wider world, with integrity, authority and eloquence of expression".

	More Exhibition Images Mickey of Ulladulla Dhurga, c.1820-1891 Boats, fish; native fauna and flora, 1880s Pencil and watercolour on paper The AIATSIS Collection
	Exhibition Foreword by Professor Mick Dodson Convenor of the ANU Institute of Indigenous Australia, Professor Mick Dodson at the opening of "Likan'mirri - Connections: The AIATSIS Collection of Art" photo: Otis Williams
	The Possible Dream Germaine Greer with Larissa Behrendt and Lester-Irabinna Rigney Thursday 7 October 2004, 6-7.30pm National Museum of Australia

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