“By 1830 a virtual state of war existed … Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur ordered thousands of able-bodied settlers to form what became known as the ‘Black Line’, a human chain that crossed the settled districts of Tasmania … The line moved south over many weeks in an attempt to intimidate, capture, displace and relocate the remaining Aboriginal people.”
– www.nma.gov.au
Decent
This series is part of an ongoing body of work exploring my personal connection to Tasmania’s natural landscape via my family history and childhood memories. These abstract watercolour landscapes creatively unpack some of the colonial narratives held within the Tasmanian landscape and their interconnections with my own relationship with this region. The liquid nature of the material speaks to the slipperiness of the stories that layer together to create memory and collective narrative.
