Shanysa McConville looks back over 65000 years of art
A new exhibition at the Potter Museum of Art wants to put the record straight.
Titled 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art, it puts — front and centre — the remarkable work of Indigenous artists and places them in conversation with the colonial art that often treated them as subjects, rather than as equals.
Co-curator Shanysa McConville explores the exhibition and the history that lies behind it.
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