Truganini, 2020
$964.00
The story of Truganini has resonated with Nick which inspired him to create a series on the last Tasmanians.
Truganini painted here in Ochre, a natural clay earth pigment, ranging in colour from yellow to deep brown. Ochre can be found in many areas of Australia and has been used in paintings dating back to ancient times. Nick explains that in Tasmania, there are cliffs, very steep and often dangerous, where ceremonial ochre can be sourced by women.
Truganini is probably the best known Tasmanian Aboriginal women of the colonial era. She was of the Nuenonne group, born on Bruny Island in about 1812, just nine years after British settlement was established further north on the mainland, close to what is now Hobart. By the time she had learned to collect food and make shell necklaces, the colonial presence became not only intrusive but dangerous. She had experienced and witnessed violence, rape and brutalities inflicted on her people. By the time she was 17 she had lost her mother, sister, uncle and would-be partner to violent incidents involving sailors, sealers, soldiers and wood cutters. This story has resonated in Nick which inspired him to create a series on the last Tasmanians.
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