Eight Days in Kamay: State Library of New South Wales
Cook's Dinner Party, 2015
Acrylic on canvas
91 x 122cm
The Endeavour, 2015
Acrylic on canvas
Undiscovered #10
Inkjet print on cotton rag
124 x 100 cm, ed of 8
Undiscovered #8
Inkjet print on cotton rag
124 x 100 cm
Undiscovered #4
Inkjet print on cotton rag
124 x 100 cm, ed of 8
Undiscovered #3
Inkjet print on cotton rag
124 x 100 cm, ed of 8
Undiscovered #1
Inkjet print on cotton rag
124 x 100 cm, ed of 8
Michael Cook, Vincent Namatjira
19 May - 31 Jul 2020
See the full online exhibition here
Eight days in Kamay, featuring works by Michael Cook and Vincent Namatjira, has moved online. See the link above to view the exhibition in full.
On 29 April 1770, the Gweagal people of Kamay (Botany Bay) discovered James Cook and his crew as they sailed into the bay and came ashore. The eight days that followed changed the course of Australia’s history. 250 years later the events of those eight days and their continuing impact are still being debated, contested, felt.
What are the facts and what are the fictions? Why do they matter for Australians today?
‘Who was James Cook, and are we, 250 years after his landing, better served if we examine this legacy truthfully or if we maintain the myths?” — Arrernte writer and social commentator Celeste Liddle, 2020