Public Program 2008
Brook Andrew: Eye to Eye
4 April - 30 May
Wednesday 7 May
12.30pm
Glenn Pilkington, Associate Curator of Indigenous Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia
Glenn Pilkington from the Art Gallery of Western Australia will discuss Brook Andrew's Eye to Eye from a curatorial perspective, focusing on issues surrounding an identity and cultural context.
Glenn Pilkington studies at Edith Cowan University and has worked in the Arts, specifically Indigenous Arts for the last three years. Glenn also has an art practice that investigates contemporary Indigenous identity.
Wednesday 16 April
12.30pm
Dr John Stanton, Director, Berndt Museum
Bringing the Photos Home Project
Dr John Stanton will discuss the Bringing the Photographs Home Project, ATSIC's response to the 'Bringing Them Home' Report.
The Berndt Museum's photographic collection consists of archival photographs from government and mission settlements and pastoral stations from 1920 to 1970. The entire photographic collection has been digitised so that information can be easily accessed.
By providing an opportunity for people to reconnect to their families and informing younger generations, the Bringing the Photographs Home project will enable communities to begin the process of reclaiming their identities.
Dr Stanton's research background includes fieldwork among fringe-dwelling Aboriginal groups in south-western New South Wales in 1971 resulting in a MA in Social Anthropology. In 1974 he transferred to Perth to commence a PhD program focusing on aspects of social change in a small Aboriginal community (Mt Margaret Mission) on the fringe of the Western Desert bloc, W.A. He has published a number of articles deriving from this research.
Tuesday 8 April
12.30pm
Brook Andrew
