a preponderance of aboriginal blood, Judy Watson (2005)
EMPIRE LINES13 Tammi 2022

a preponderance of aboriginal blood, Judy Watson (2005)

Jeremy Eccles etches out the colonial and continued denial of discrimination against Australia's Indigenous communities, through Judy Watson's 2005 series, a preponderance of aboriginal blood.

Sixteen black and white documents from the Queensland State Archives, dating back to 1866, map out Australia's discriminatory race-based system of citizenship rights. Now splattered with blood red ink by the artist Judy Watson, they stand central in the Tate Modern's latest show, 'A Year in Art: Australia 1992'. This little recognised year in Australian history witnessed the landmark Mabo Decision, in which the Indigenous Torres Strait Islander Eddie Mabo legally asserted his peoples' pre-colonial rights to their land. As a 'city Aboriginal', Watson's blood-stained book speaks to Britain's unique colonial aspirations for 'White Australia', the oft-silenced violence behind terra nullius, and the ongoing battle for social and historical inclusion still faced by Indigenous Australians.

Part of EMPIRE LINES' Australia Season, marking the 30 year anniversary of the Mabo vs. Queensland Case (1992) and Tate Modern's A Year in Art: Australia 1992. Listen to the other episode with Dr. Desmond Manderson.


PRESENTER: Jeremy Eccles, editor of the Aboriginal Art Directory in Australia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, and a member of the International Association of Art Critics.

ART: a preponderance of aboriginal blood, Judy Watson (2005).

IMAGE: 'a preponderance of aboriginal blood'.

SOUNDS: New Weird Australia.

PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic.


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