Aboriginal Art

When the first Europeans sailed into Sydney Cove they disturbed at least forty thousand years of unique aboriginal culture and, in the sometimes violent clashes that followed, much of that culture was eclipsed and even destroyed. This film considers the work of four contemporary Aborigines who demonstrate that the rich visual and oral traditions of their people still flourish against all odds: writer Archie Weller, artist Trevor Nickolls, painter and carver Banduk Marika, and poet Kath Walker.