CREATING THE EXHIBITION Admission Admission to Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning exhibition For four years, emerging and established Aboriginal artists from 15 and general admission to the National Museum is free. language groups, traditional custodians, and a cross-cultural team of curators and multimedia crew have worked together to produce The National Museum Shop the collection and Yiwarra Kuju exhibition. The Museum Shop has an exciting range of gifts and mementos A series of return-to-Country professional development workshops representative of all nine art centres featured in the Yiwarra Kuju were held, including a six-week trek along the stock route. exhibition. Pop in and browse our stunning baskets, jewellery, prints and stationery, and don’t forget to pick up a copy of the exhibition catalogue, This groundbreaking exhibition reveals the richness of desert life which features beautiful images of the complete Canning Stock Route today. It is a story of contact, confl ict and survival, of exodus and collection. return, seen through Aboriginal eyes, and interpreted through their voices, art and new media. Visiting from interstate or overseas? Canberra is just a short fl ight from Sydney and . Or you can travel by train, coach or road. It’s an easy three-hour drive from Sydney. For details on Canberra accommodation or information about other When they see the exhibition they’ll fi nd out things to see and do while you are in town, call the Canberra and Region what the stock route is really. This project Visitors Centre on 1300 554 114 or visit www.visitcanberra.com.au. gonna open lotta people’s eyes, to fi nd the true history through Aboriginal people.

Putuparri Tom Lawford Palm Springs, 2009

YIWARRA KUJU

1 2 THE CANNING Free general admission Open 9 am – 5 pm daily (closed Christmas Day) STOCK ROUTE Lawson Crescent Acton Peninsula Canberra Freecall 1800 026 132 www.nma.gov.au 3 4 The National Museum of Australia is an Australian Government Agency 30 July 2010 to 26 January 2011 National Museum of Australia

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STOCK ROUTE Themes of Country, Jukurrpa (Dreaming), History and Family are explored through a vibrant and rich collection of over 90 contemporary paintings, cultural objects, fi lms and photography.

The dynamic ‘One road’ multimedia installation featuring THE STORY 6 multi-touch technology allows visitors to explore the The Canning Stock Route runs nearly half the length of Western connections between the works of art, the people and the Australia through some of the remotest landscapes on earth. Country. It’s the fi rst of its kind on this scale, with over 40 sets of hands able to access it at once. First surveyed in 1906 by , it began as a means to drive THE CANNING STOCK ROUTE PROJECT cattle from the stations of the Kimberley to the markets of the south. The Yiwarra Kuju exhibition grew as a result of Ngurra Kuju Walyja: Though ultimately unsuccessful, the stock route irrevocably affected (One Country One People) The Canning Stock Route Project — the lives of the Aboriginal people in the region and led to dispersal an initiative of FORM, a cultural organisation based in , and displacement of families. dedicated to advocating for and developing creativity in That road been put by that Canning mob … Western Australia. lately … Before, used to be blackfella Country. From 2006 to 2010 the project brought together the vision, Ngarralja Tommy May energy and talent of more than 110 Aboriginal artists and Nyarna (Lake Stretch), 2007 contributors from nine remote area community art centres and enterprises — Birriliburu Artists, Martumili Artists, Kayili Artists, 2 Papunya Tula Artists, Mangkaja Arts, Paruku Indigenous Protected Area, Warlayirti Artists, Yulparija Artists and Ngurra Artists.

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