The art of pastoralism in Australia

本项目旨在研究19世纪80年代至1970年代初，从澳大利亚西南部到北方昆士兰州的土著劳工在牛羊饲养场上制作的艺术品。据说澳大利亚是“建立在羊背上”的，但土著人在澳大利亚畜牧业中的劳动经验却很少有文献记载。该项目将联合收割机的艺术和劳动历史的方法，以上下文雕刻股票鞭子处理，早期图纸的马，岩石雕刻，水彩画和品牌盾牌。该项目的成果将是重建澳大利亚土著人的畜牧经验，以创造一个1970年以前的土著艺术史以及澳大利亚畜牧业史。

This project aims to study art made on sheep and cattle station by Aboriginal labourers from the 1880s to the early 1970s, in regions from South-West Australia to Northern Queensland. Australia is said to have been founded 'on the sheep's back', but the experience of Aboriginal labour in Australian pastoralism is little documented. The project will combine the methods of art and labour histories to contextualise carved stock whip handles, early drawings of horses, rock engravings, watercolour paintings and branded shields. The project outcomes will be a reconstruction of Aboriginal experiences of pastoralism in Australia to create a more nuanced history of Aboriginal art before 1970, as well as the history of Australian pastoral industries.