Aboriginal Healing,
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"It is a Story of life in East Perth in the '40s, with the restrictions placed on the movement of Aboriginals and the ongoing fear of Aboriginal children being removed from their families. It is also a Story of Aboriginal people coming together at the Coolbaroo Club dances and the Aboriginal values of giving, sharing and reciprocity."
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Paintings from the HeartLast year, considerable attention was focused on the return from the USA of a collection of world class paintings done by Aboriginal children of The Stolen Generation at the Carrolup mission during the 1940s.
These paintings, which are now housed at Curtin University, highly influenced subsequent Noongar art practice. Our short film by Michael Liu focuses on another facet of the Carrolup artists’ Story, an unknown Story of how three of the Carrolup artists - Revel Cooper, Parnell Dempster and Reynold Hart - gave gifts of their paintings to Ida Colbung for providing a place to stay during their visits to East Perth in the 1940s. These ‘paintings from the heart’ have been passed down to Ida’s granddaughter Karen Hume, who relates the fascinating Story to Professor Marion Kickett. It is a Story of life in East Perth in the '40s, with the restrictions placed on the movement of Aboriginals and the ongoing fear of Aboriginal children being removed from their families. It is also a Story of Aboriginal people coming together at the Coolbaroo Club dances and the Aboriginal values of giving, sharing and reciprocity. |
Carrolup Artwork'More than 100 works of art produced by Noongar children who were confined at the Carrolup Native School and Settlement during the 1940s and 1950s have been returned to WA from America. The paintings, which are now well known, were so distinctive and technically sophisticated that they received widespread international acclaim when they toured around Europe in the 1950s...'
'... Carrolup, which is located near Katanning, operated as a Native Settlement between 1940 and 1951, when the land and all assets were handed over to the Baptist Union to become the Marribank Farm School, although it was not known by that name till later. The paintings were subsequently acquired by Florence Rutter. The paintings were produced during the 1940s by the children aged between five and fourteen years, who were encouraged by their teacher and school principal, Noel White, to wander through the local bush to make sketches of what they saw. The sketches were later turned into distinctive paintings in the classroom without the benefit of any formal instruction.' > Full text |