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Next showing in Queensland
25 May 2013 – 14 July 2013
Queensland Museum, Brisbane
Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route tells the story of the Canning Stock Route's impact on Aboriginal people, and the importance of the Country that surrounds it, through the works of senior and emerging artists and the stories of traditional custodians.
This groundbreaking exhibition reveals the richness of desert life.
It tells a story of contact, conflict and survival, of exodus and return, seen through Aboriginal eyes, and interpreted through their voices, art and new media.
We wanna tell you fellas 'bout things been happening in the past that hasn't been recorded, what old people had in their head. No pencil and paper. The white man history has been told and it's today in the book. But our history is not there properly. We've got to tell 'em through our paintings.
Clifford Brooks, Wiluna, 2007.
Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route exhibition is a joint initiative between the National Museum of Australia and FORM.
This exhibition is supported by the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach Program, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to the national collections for all Australians.
The exhibition made its debut in Canberra on 30 July 2010 and ran until 26 January 2011. The exhibition was also on show at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre in Western Australia from 2 to 27 November 2011, and at the Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales from 17 December 2011 to 29 April 2012.
