My country, I still call Australia home: Contemporary art from Black Australia

Publisher Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Stanley Place, South Bank, Brisbane PO Box 3686, South Brisbane Queensland 4101 Australia www.qagoma.qld.gov.au Published for ‘My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia’, an exhibition organised by the Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) and held at GOMA, Brisbane, Australia, 1 June – 7 October 2013. © Queensland Art Gallery, 2013 This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 , no part may be reproduced without prior written permission from the publisher. No illustration in this publication may be reproduced without the permission of the copyright owners. Requests and inquiries concerning reproductions and rights should be addressed to the publisher. Copyright for texts in this publication is held by QAGOMA and the authors. Copyright for all art works and images is held by the creators or their representatives, unless otherwise stated. Copyright of photographic images is held by individual photographers and institutions or QAGOMA. Every endeavour has been made to obtain permissions from the copyright owners; inquiries concerning reproductions and rights should be addressed to the publisher. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Author: Queensland Art Gallery. Title: My country, I still call Australia home : contemporary art from Black Australia / Queensland Art Gallery. ISBN: 9781921503542 (paperback) Subjects: Queensland Art Gallery--Exhibitions. Art, Modern--21st century--Exhibitions. Art, Aboriginal Australian--21st century--Exhibitions. Artists, Aboriginal Australian--21st century--Exhibitions. Dewey Number: 704.039915 Notes on the publication The spelling of Indigenous words and names can vary. They generally appear in the publication according to conventions of accepted usage and authoritative sources, as well as institutional preference. In most instances, artists’ birth and death dates and language groups have been supplied by the artists and/or verified by appropriate community sources. Text for this publication has been supplied by the authors as attributed. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the publisher. Dimensions of works are given in centimetres (cm), height preceding width followed by depth. Descriptive and attributed titles are in parenthesis. Captions generally appear as supplied. All photography is credited as known. Care has been taken to ensure the colour reproductions match as closely as possible the supplied transparencies, film stock or digital files of the original works. Typeset in Acta Poster and Flama. Image colour adjustment by ColourChiefs and printing by Platypus Graphics. Printed on Strathmore Premium Wove and HannoArt Silk from K.W.Doggett Fine Paper. Warning It is customary in many Indigenous communities not to mention the name or reproduce photographs of the deceased. All such mentions and photographs in this publication are with permission. However, care and discretion should be exercised in using this book within Indigenous communities. COVER Charlotte Mye Meriam Mir people QLD Basket (detail) 2010 Check-woven polypropylene tape Purchased 2010. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation MAJOR SPONSOR This project has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland’s Backing Indigenous Arts initiative. CHILDREN’S ART CENTRE SPONSORED BY CHILDREN’S ART CENTRE PUBLICATION SUPPORTED BY Gordon Hookey Kangaroo Crew SPONSORED BY SPONSORS Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art thanks the following sponsors and partners for their support of the exhibition: Media partner 192