Sydney, Alice Springs and Darwin
“The society at the time was officially racist. While white children studied in the big towns, all black boys were sent out to become apprentices. Girls were destined for domesticity.”
Mary-Ann
Abstracts
Mary-Ann
“I became a nurse. I was the first (Aboriginal) graduate nurse at Darwin Hospital. But it was really tough. It was an extremely racist period. (…) I applied for a job at Adelaide University when I learned that an indigenous section had opened. We were given access to university for the first time. This was in the mid-1970s. (…) I worked hard. I won a scholarship to go and study in the United States, in Boston. I did my master’s and my PhD at Harvard! I returned to Darwin to become Dean of the College of Indigenous Education and Research.”
Pansy
"(…) When it opened, the casino at Alice Springs was reserved to conservatively dressed clients in ties, which kept out the indigenous population. Given how few people there are around, the regulations have clearly loosened up since, and today, people go in disheveled, in jeans and bare feet. Most of the clients are Aboriginal women. Women see it as a haven of freshness and peace; this is where, every day, they give up their meager handouts allocated by the government. Pansy lives honorably from her art, which makes her a privileged client. She stopped feeding the machine with her coins for a moment to listen to us with a big grin. Dean ended up getting the message across that I wanted to draw her. That made her laugh."
Extract from Zoé Zoé, Femmes du mondes, 2007, Éditions Gallimard
Works
![AUSTRALIA 1824](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_lola.jpg?itok=xooKdXWZ)
Sidney, Australia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm
![AUSTRALIA 2545](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_lola_leopard.jpg?itok=febXJDlN)
Sidney, Australia
C-Print
100 x 110 cm
![AUSTRALIA 2549](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_pansy_et_les_montagnes.jpg?itok=-AGhhrH9)
Asutralia
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm
![AUSTRALIA 2551](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_pansy_sous_la_croix_du_sud.jpg?itok=S4-Vvon9)
Papunya, Australia
Gouache on paper
66 x 84 cm
![AUSTRALIA 2553](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_portrait_a_quatre_mains.jpg?itok=0Ed_39I8)
Papunya, Australia
Gouache on paper
55 x 84 cm
![AUSTRALIA 2555](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_colline_rouge.jpg?itok=Fmv0PbQg)
Papunya, Australia
Gouache on paper
33 x 42 cm
![AUSTRALIA 2557](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_sur_la_route_de_papounya.jpg?itok=ulMsFuEw)
Australia
Silver print
40 x 60 cm
![AUSTRALIA 2560](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_la_maison_de_papounya.jpg?itok=YoPVKG5X)
Australia
Silver print
40 x 60 cm
![AUSTRALIA 2564](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_pansy_et_les_montagnes2.jpg?itok=KP_kz2_u)
Australia
C-Print
120 x 200 cm
Maps
![AUSTRALIA 1953](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/cartes/tit_2017_cartes_australie.jpg?itok=N7eF0qtY)
Gouache on paper
60 x 120 cm
Making-of
![Illustration Making Of](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/width-half/public/uploads/illustration/tit_2017_makingof_australie.jpg?itok=iPxN6cYq)
© Bruno Pellarin
![Illustration Making Of](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/width-half/public/uploads/illustration/tit_2017_makingof_australie2.jpg?itok=8lcS9hye)
© Bruno Pellarin
![Illustration Making Of](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/width-half/public/uploads/illustration/tit_2017_makingof_australie3.jpg?itok=Rtf16iRF)
© Bruno Pellarin
Images by Delphine Bole