Made in Australia: The trajectory of the kangaroo in the artbank collection

As money fed into remote art centres in the 1980s, enabling cultural tourism to open up opportunities for marketing Indigenous art, audiences in Australia (and beyond) were called afresh to the iconic power that resides in the depiction of the kangaroo. It was also during this decade, within the con...

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Published in:Art monthly Australasia 2020-12 (326), p.80-85
Main Author: Courtney Kidd
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Climatic changes
Culture and tourism
Indigenous art
Indigenous peoples in popular culture
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Summary:As money fed into remote art centres in the 1980s, enabling cultural tourism to open up opportunities for marketing Indigenous art, audiences in Australia (and beyond) were called afresh to the iconic power that resides in the depiction of the kangaroo. It was also during this decade, within the context of a physical and intellectual climate transforming the ways place could be identified, that the Australian Government launched Artbank. Forty years on it has evolved into arguably the best-realised model of coexhibiting Indigenous and non-Indigenous art.
ISSN:2209-8844