Graphic Encounters: Colonial Prints and the Inscription of Aboriginality

该项目计划整理国家和国际收藏品中描绘澳大利亚原住民的版画档案，以探讨殖民版画是如何在这块新侵占的领土上刻下人们的位置的。19世纪90年代以前，版画(版画、蚀刻和平版印刷)是复制图像的主要手段。版画传播了土著人民的形象，并决定了他们如何被“放入”定居点的画面中。我们殖民时代的文化遗产包括许多土著人的版画(版画、蚀刻、石版画等)，但它们被忽视了，它们的生产、传播和消费的故事不为人知。该项目旨在整理和追踪这一澳大利亚土著居民的视觉档案，并将其图像以展览和会议、目录、专著和在线数据库的形式呈现给所有澳大利亚人，包括其后代。

This project plans to collate the archive of prints depicting Indigenous Australians, from national and international collections, to ask how people's place in this newly encroached territory was inscribed by colonial prints. Before the 1890s, prints (engravings, etchings and lithographs) were the principal means of reproducing images. Prints disseminated imagery of Indigenous people and determined how they were 'put in the picture' of settlement. Our colonial-era cultural heritage includes many prints (engravings, etchings, lithographs, etcetera) of Aborigines, yet they have been overlooked and the story of their production, dissemination and consumption is untold. This project aims to collate and trace this visual archive of Indigenous Australians and present its imagery to all Australians, including descendants, in an exhibition and conference, catalogue, monograph and online database.