‘The Truth of What Occurred Remains’ brings together two major bodies of work that reflect on the transgenerational trauma of colonisation experienced by Indigenous people. Tracey Moffatt’s Up in the Sky (1997) touches on race, violence and poverty; the deleterious ramifications of the Stolen Generation whose wounds never healed. Hayley Millar-Baker’s A Series of Unwarranted Events (2018) depicts the violent truths behind the European occupation of southwestern Victoria, land of the Gunditjmara people. By layering, cutting and repositioning imagery complexities of Aboriginality are revealed.
Hayley Millar-Baker, Untitled (The best means, of caring for, and dealing with them, in the future), 2018, inkjet on cotton rag, 80 x 100cm. Courtesy the artist and Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
Until 23 February 2020
New South Wales
