Graphic Encounters: Colonial Prints and the Inscription of Aboriginality

该项目计划整理来自国家和国际收藏的描绘澳大利亚土著人的版画档案，以了解人们在这片新被侵占的领土上的地位是如何被殖民版画铭记的。在19世纪90年代之前，版画（雕刻，蚀刻和石版画）是复制图像的主要手段。印刷品传播了土著人民的形象，并决定了他们如何“融入”定居点。我们的殖民时代文化遗产包括许多土著人的版画（雕刻，蚀刻，石版画等），但它们一直被忽视，其生产，传播和消费的故事是不为人知的。该项目旨在整理和追踪澳大利亚土著人的这一视觉档案，并通过展览和会议、目录、专著和在线数据库向所有澳大利亚人，包括其后裔展示其图像。

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.