N’arweet Dr Carolyn Briggs AM and Sarah Lynn Rees <em>Gathering Space: Ngargee Djeembana</em> 2021; glass, ceramic, kangaroo leather, clay, myrtle beech (<em>Nothofagus cunninghamii</em>), silvertop ash (<em>Eucalyptus sieberi</em>), red ironbark (<em>Eucalyptus fibrosa</em>), river red gum (<em>Eucalyptus camaldulensis</em>), Victorian ash (<em>Eucalyptus delegatensis</em>), yellow stringybark (<em>Eucalyptus muelleriana</em>), narrow leaf peppermint gum (<em>Eucalyptus radiata</em>), silver wattle (<em>Acacia dealbata</em>), blackwood (<em>Acacia melanoxylon</em>), mountain ash (<em>Eucalyptus regnans</em>), shining gum (<em>Eucalyptus nitens</em>), manna gum (<em>Eucalyptus viminalis</em>), mountain grey gum (<em>Eucalyptus cypellocarpa</em>), southern blue gum (<em>Eucalyptus globulus</em>), southern mahogany (<em>Eucalyptus botryoides</em>), scoria, basalt, sandstone, quartzite. Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2022<br/> © N'arweet Carolyn Briggs and Sarah Lynn Rees. Photo: Andrew Curtis
Event Community Hall Talks and discussions

Museums as Custodians: Repatriation & Cultural Heritage

Sun 13 Aug 23, 11am–11.45am


Free entry

The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square

Community Hall Ground Level

N’arweet Dr Carolyn Briggs AM and Sarah Lynn Rees <em>Gathering Space: Ngargee Djeembana</em> 2021; glass, ceramic, kangaroo leather, clay, myrtle beech (<em>Nothofagus cunninghamii</em>), silvertop ash (<em>Eucalyptus sieberi</em>), red ironbark (<em>Eucalyptus fibrosa</em>), river red gum (<em>Eucalyptus camaldulensis</em>), Victorian ash (<em>Eucalyptus delegatensis</em>), yellow stringybark (<em>Eucalyptus muelleriana</em>), narrow leaf peppermint gum (<em>Eucalyptus radiata</em>), silver wattle (<em>Acacia dealbata</em>), blackwood (<em>Acacia melanoxylon</em>), mountain ash (<em>Eucalyptus regnans</em>), shining gum (<em>Eucalyptus nitens</em>), manna gum (<em>Eucalyptus viminalis</em>), mountain grey gum (<em>Eucalyptus cypellocarpa</em>), southern blue gum (<em>Eucalyptus globulus</em>), southern mahogany (<em>Eucalyptus botryoides</em>), scoria, basalt, sandstone, quartzite. Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2022<br/> © N'arweet Carolyn Briggs and Sarah Lynn Rees. Photo: Andrew Curtis
Past program

Explore the role of museums and galleries as custodians of First Nations cultural materials in Australia and around the world, and how contemporary artists respond to historical objects to engage with contemporary dialogues such as repatriation and cultural heritage.

Speaker
Professor Gaye Sculthorpe, Research Professor, Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies, Deakin University
Moderator
Professor Lynette Russell AM, Distinguished Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University

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