Museums of History NSW | First Nations Speaker Series – Articulating Sydney’s Aboriginal past in the public realm @MuseumsofHistoryNSW | Uploaded October 2021 | Updated October 2024, 36 minutes ago.
Presenter: Matt Poll, Manager, Indigenous Programs at Australian National Maritime Museum.
Recorded at The Mint, Sydney on Wednesday 13th October, 2021. Images included in the presentation were provided by Matt Poll.
The First Nations Speaker Series is presented by Sydney Living Museums, GML Heritage and the Research Centre for Deep History at the Australian National University.
Articulating Sydney’s Aboriginal past in the public realm
Along Australia’s east coast, Greater Sydney is unique, with over 800 known Aboriginal rock engraving sites recorded across Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park alone, each containing multiple motifs and designs denoting a rich artistic vocabulary. Being one of the largest outdoor Aboriginal art sites remaining on the east coast of Australia, Sydney rock engraving galleries are a testament to the rich artistic tradition of the Aboriginal cultural landscape. This heritage stands as a signpost of the role of public art as a teaching and learning tool. Cultural revitalisation projects using knowledge gleaned from a myriad of historical sources present challenges for Sydney’s Aboriginal community when rearticulating these forms of knowledge today.
Find out more
https://slm.is/firstnationsseries
Presenter: Matt Poll, Manager, Indigenous Programs at Australian National Maritime Museum.
Recorded at The Mint, Sydney on Wednesday 13th October, 2021. Images included in the presentation were provided by Matt Poll.
The First Nations Speaker Series is presented by Sydney Living Museums, GML Heritage and the Research Centre for Deep History at the Australian National University.
Articulating Sydney’s Aboriginal past in the public realm
Along Australia’s east coast, Greater Sydney is unique, with over 800 known Aboriginal rock engraving sites recorded across Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park alone, each containing multiple motifs and designs denoting a rich artistic vocabulary. Being one of the largest outdoor Aboriginal art sites remaining on the east coast of Australia, Sydney rock engraving galleries are a testament to the rich artistic tradition of the Aboriginal cultural landscape. This heritage stands as a signpost of the role of public art as a teaching and learning tool. Cultural revitalisation projects using knowledge gleaned from a myriad of historical sources present challenges for Sydney’s Aboriginal community when rearticulating these forms of knowledge today.
Find out more
https://slm.is/firstnationsseries
