Introducing: @NationalGalleryAus x Volley collaboration, inviting First Nations artists to illustrate what it is like to ‘walk in their shoes’.
On the first feature here, is the artwork by Sandra Saunders, a Boandik/Ngarrindjeri artist who lives in Wangary on the Eyre Peninsula, the eastern curve of the Great Australian Bight. "My Volley Shoes is a story about the history of Australia. More than 50,000 years ago Aboriginal people lived all over the country having their own clan groups, land, traditions, customs and languages. They hunted and gathered looking after the land, water, animals and environment. In 1788 Captain Cook invaded Australia claiming the land for England. In 2017 [the Uluru] Statement from the Heart was written and presented to the Australian government. The statement is to give Aboriginal people a voice in the Australian constitution, a treaty for Aboriginal people".
📷 Sandra Saunders, Volley Shoes, 2022, image by Robert Lang. @robertlangphotography
More to come from this amazing project. Stay tuned.
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