Indigenous Collaborations: Audio

To mark Women’s History Month for 2007, artist and historian Dr Julie Gough speaks on the topic 'Strait Crossings: 19th-century Indigenous relocation between Victoria and Van Diemen’s Land and beyond'. This was the subject of her 2006 State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowship research project. She tackles the subject from her unique perspective as a visual artist, a historical researcher and a Tasmanian Aboriginal person.

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Dr Julie Gough is a visual artist working predominantly in sculpture and installation art. Her art and research practice involves uncovering and re-presenting historical stories as part of an ongoing project that questions and re-evaluates the impact of the past on our present lives. Much of the work refers to her own and her family’s experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people.

Dr Gough is currently on research leave from her position as a lecturer in Visual Arts at James Cook University Townsville to undertake three fellowships awarded across the fields of visual arts and historical research in 2007 and 2008. Her former roles include Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Victoria and Lecturer at Riawunna – Centre for Aboriginal Studies at the University of Tasmania. She has undertaken artist residencies in Australia, Mauritius, New York and Paris.

Her maternal affiliation is to the Trawlwoolway people, whose country ranges across the far north-eastern corner of Tasmania.

This lecture was held at the State Library of Victoria on 28 March 2007.

Where possible, a transcript or speaker's notes can be provided upon request.