28 July 2007
Julie Dowling: Strange Fruit
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Julie Dowling
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We talk to one of Australia's greatest exponents of the family portrait, Julie Dowling. Her work pays homage to the resilience of her relatives in paintings where the personal and political are inseparable.
We present excerpts from the 2007 Mabo Lecture delivered last month in Cairns by the former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Professor Mick Dodson.
And - the award-winning author Alexis Wright, who's just won the Australian fiction book of the year for her epic novel 'Carpentaria' , talks about history as fiction and the politics of writing.
Further Information
Strange fruit: testimony and memory in Julie Dowling's portraits
Ian Potter Museum of Art
University of Melbourne
until October 14 2007
Presenter
Daniel Browning
Producer
Daniel Browning and Kerrie Jean Ross
