
These paintings are a comment on struggles that the farmers and other landholders are facing when attempting to hold on to their land in the face of ongoing national development. However, the particular sites have been painted hold cultural significance to the Indigenous people, who used to use this land for ceremonial and other purposes but were driven out due to increasing industrialization, growing primary Industries and colonial intensions. These Australian abstract landscapes feature beautiful and idyllic scenes that Australians and people from around the world visit and enjoy. Each painting is beautiful and unique as the land that they portray with the comment that these lands are unseeded Indigenous land.
The exhibition's purpose was to continue awareness of indigenous land rights issues and simultaneously raise money for the indigenous people of the land in Armidale. 25% of the proceeds went to the Anaiwan people who are the traditional owners of the country that encompasses current-day Armidale and Uralla.
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