Mar 22
Julie Gough (b1965) Trawlwoolway people/ Tasmania, Australia
The Promise II (2018-21) chair, kangaroo vellum, LED
collection: Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
after George Frankland (1800-38) England, Australia
Governor Arthur’s Proclamation to the Aborigines (c1828-30)
oil on Huon Pine
Described by a contemporary as ‘a gentleman of the highest talents but without one atom of common sense’, Frankland took part in exploratory missions in Van Diemen’s Land and drew the misguided 'comic strip’ proclamation to the Tasmanian Aborigines in 1829. daao.org.au
exhibited: 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art, Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne