Officially launched at the University of Melbourne earlier this week, 65,OOO Years: A Short History of Australian Art stares into the dark heart of Australia’s brutal colonial history and offers new insights into the first art of this country.
Featuring new writing by 25 leading thinkers across generations and disciplines, this publication further examines an extraordinary body of artwork that will be displayed in the upcoming landmark exhibition of the same name set to open in mid-2O25 at the University of Melbourne’s revitalised Potter Museum of Art.
Both the publication, edited by Professor Marcia Langton AO and Ms Judith Ryan AM, and the exhibition, curated by Professor Langton, Ms Ryan and Ms Shanysa McConville, feature over 4OO artworks that celebrate the longevity and brilliance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art despite a difficult history of colonialism and scientific racism.
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