Explore the fascinating and diverse working lives of snake-wrangling Scottish jillaroo Bernice Kopple; deadly Gammin Threads Design founder Tahnee Edwards whose creative process speaks to a long history of First Peoples t-shirt making and protest and community slogans being worn; 1940s super-mum and professional pattern maker Violet Morgan; Laverton pigment workers who literally brought their blues home with them; post-WWII Italian migrant and model maker Domenico Annetta; and former refugee and human rights lawyer Nydaol Nyuon, through objects and projected images from the Museums Victoria collection.
Factory worker covered with blue pigment. Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Laverton 1980. Photographer unknown. Source Museums Victoria. Courtesy Alan Thompson and Immigration Museum, Melbourne
Immigration Museum
Until September 2023
Melbourne
