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“This story was when I was a little girl with my mate. We were going back to Mabel Downs for getting some beef – from where they used to fence at Six Mile Bore. We was going back to get some meat, and my uncle was driving his truck. Me and Mary and the old man’s dog was sitting on the back of the truck, and we wanted to go toilet but we didn’t knock to him because we were cheeky, so we bin throw that dog off the truck to show him, and he saw us on the side mirror. He stopped the truck and tell us to walk from there – he left us there to walk home. It was a far walk, good enough long distance. We cried all the way.”
This exhibition features new works from ten women artists reinterpreting and reimagining elements of Australian history, enriching the contemporary narrative around Australia’s history and biography, reflecting the tradition of storytelling in our country.
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