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Featuring 30 early- to mid-career artists, Defying Empire is a compelling, unsettling rumination on the Indigenous experience
Defiance is a word which characterises Indigenous Australia better than any other.
It’s a defiance of wildly divergent land and seascapes, by vastly different peoples, which have proven fatal for others. And since 1788 it’s a cultural, physical and political defiance of violence, oppression, assimilation and the intent – and attempt – to vanish a people from this continent.
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