Indigenous Activists and Artists

The evening of Sorry Day found WfaAR at the National Gallery of Australia for an engrossing evening of  Indigenous speakers: Aboriginal Black Power activist from the 1960s and 70s turned academic, Dr Gary Foley now at Victoria University in Melbourne; historical artist and mapmaker Judy Watson and young artist Amanda Hayman, both from Brisbane. All three are at the forefront of interpreting and re-interpreting the Indigenous history of struggle and repression in their own land. The artists spoke about their works currently showing in the Defying Empire exhibition.