Ancestors, Artefacts, Empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish Museum Publisher / Mistry Press chronicling their scientific and popular

chronicling their scientific and popular appeal throughout the ages and around the world

Emphasis is also placed on a lesser-known series of small works on paper painted in 1995–96

but an intellectual one

Launched to coincide with a major exhibition of Smart’s work at the National Gallery of Australia

Traditionally women have been among art’s favoured objects of representation

Ancestors, Artefacts, Empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish Museum Publisher / Mistry Press chronicling their scientific and popularMuseums across the United Kingdom and Ireland hold over 39,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks and artefacts. Gifted, sold, exchanged and bartered by Indigenous people, and accepted, bought and taken by explorers, travellers and colonial collectors and these rare objects date from 1770 to the present day, representing all regions of the vast Australian continent. Dispersed and distanced from their origins, 160 objects are gathered