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AUSTRALIA


2005

Pansy sous la Croix du Sud, 2005

Papunya, Australia
Gouache on paper (detail)

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AUSTRALIA
2005

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
Lola, 2005

Sidney, Australia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm

AUSTRALIA 2545
Lola "Léopard", 2005

Sidney, Australia
C-Print
100 x 110 cm

AUSTRALIA 2549
Pansy et les montagnes de Papounya, 2005

Asutralia
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm

AUSTRALIA 2551
Pansy sous la Croix du Sud, 2005

Papunya, Australia
Gouache on paper
66 x 84 cm

AUSTRALIA 2553
Portrait à quatre mains, 2005

Papunya, Australia
Gouache on paper
55 x 84 cm

AUSTRALIA 2555
Colline rouge, 2005

Papunya, Australia
Gouache on paper
33 x 42 cm

AUSTRALIA 2557
Sur la route de Papounya, 2005

Australia
Silver print
40 x 60 cm

AUSTRALIA 2560
La maison de Papounya, 2005

Australia
Silver print
40 x 60 cm

AUSTRALIA 2564
Pansy et les montagnes de Papounya 2, 2005

Australia
C-Print
120 x 200 cm

Maps

AUSTRALIA 1953
Map of Australia, 2005

Gouache on paper
60 x 120 cm

Making-of

Illustration Making Of
At Lola "Leopard"'s, 2005

© Bruno Pellarin

Illustration Making Of
On the road of Papounya, 2005

© Bruno Pellarin

Illustration Making Of
On the road of Papounya 2, 2005

© Bruno Pellarin

Film by Marc Jampolsky

Images by Delphine Bole

Books

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