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  • 'Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation' at the British Museum

    'Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation' at the British Museum

    The British Museum will open a major exhibition presenting a history of Indigenous Australia, supported by BP. This exhibition will be the first in the UK devoted to the history and culture of Indigenous Australians: both Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders. Drawing on objects from the British Museum’s collection, accompanied by important loans from British and Australian collections, the show will present Indigenous Australia as a living culture, with a continuous history dating back over 60,000 years.

    'Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation' at the British Museum
    Bark painting of a barramundi. Western Arnhem Land, about 1961 [Credit: © The Trustees of the British Museum]
    The objects in the exhibition will range from a shield believed to have been collected at Botany Bay in 1770 by Captain Cook or one of his men, a protest placard from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy established in 1972, contemporary paintings and specially commissioned artworks from leading Indigenous artists. Many of the objects in the exhibition have never been on public display before.

    The objects displayed in this exhibition are immensely important. The British Museum’s collection contains some of the earliest objects collected from Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders through early naval voyages, colonists, and missionaries dating as far back as 1770. Many were collected at a time before museums were established in Australia and they represent tangible evidence of some of the earliest moments of contact between Aboriginal people, Torres Strait Islanders and the British. Many of these encounters occurred in or near places that are now major Australian cities such as Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth. As a result of collecting made in the early 1800s, many objects originate from coastal locations rather than the arid inland areas that are often associated with Indigenous Australia in the popular imagination.

    The exhibition will not only present Indigenous ways of understanding the land and sea but also the significant challenges faced by Indigenous Australians from the colonial period until to the present day. In 1770 Captain Cook landed on the east coast of Australia, a continent larger than Europe. In this land there were hundreds of different Aboriginal groups, each inhabiting a particular area, and each having its own languages, laws and traditions. This land became a part of the British Empire and remained so until the various colonies joined together in 1901 to become the nation of Australia we know today. In this respect, the social history of 19th century Australia and the place of Indigenous people within this is very much a British story. This history continues into the twenty first century. With changing policies towards Indigenous Australians and their struggle for recognition of civil rights, this exhibition shows why issues about Indigenous Australians are still often so highly debated in Australia today.

    The exhibition brings together loans of special works from institutions in the United Kingdom, including the British Library, the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. A number of works from the collection of the National Museum of Australia will be shown, including the masterpiece ‘Yumari’ by Uta Uta Tjangala. Tjangala was one of the artists who initiated the translation of traditions of sand sculptures and body painting onto canvas in 1971 at Papunya, a government settlement 240km northwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Tjangala was also an inspirational leader who developed a plan for the Pintupi community to return to their homelands after decades of living at Papunya. A design from ‘Yumari’ forms a watermark on current Australian passports.

    This exhibition has been developed in consultation with many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals, Indigenous art and cultural centres across Australia, and has been organised with the National Museum of Australia. The broader project is a collaboration with the National Museum of Australia. It draws on a joint research project, funded by the Australian Research Council, undertaken by the British Museum, the National Museum of Australia and the Australian National University. Titled ‘Engaging Objects: Indigenous communities, museum collections and the representation of Indigenous histories’, the research project began in 2011 and involved staff from the National Museum of Australia and the British Museum visiting communities to discuss objects from the British Museum’s collections. The research undertaken revealed information about the circumstances of collecting and significance of the objects, many of which previously lacked good documentation. The project also brought contemporary Indigenous artists to London to view and respond to the Australian collections at the British Museum.

    Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum said, “The history of Australia and its people is an incredible, continuous story that spans over 60,000 years. This story is also an important part of more recent British history and so it is of great significance that audiences in London will see these unique and powerful objects exploring this narrative. Temporary exhibitions of this nature are only possible thanks to external support so I am hugely grateful to BP for their longstanding and on-going commitment to the British Museum. I would also like to express my gratitude to our logistics partner IAG Cargo and the Australian High Commission who are supporting the exhibition’s public programme.”

    Source: The British Museum [April 23, 2015]

  • Gold Island

    Gold Island

    Beer island

    The Good Island

    XXXX have got an island for Australian mates to experience the good life. So check out a slice of Island of free-love where rules are rules, everyone is equal and visitors are free from all of the fancy 5 star treatments. It's not Club Med - it's more Club Shed. Simply kick back and enjoy a beer with your mates.

    Category: Drinks;
    Client: Lion;
    Agency: BMF;
    Art Director / Copywriter: Alex Booker;
    Executive Creative Director: Shane Bradnick;
    Art Director / Copywriter: Philip Sicklinger;
    Photographer: Kent Matthews;
    Retoucher: Vanessa Brownlee;
    Art Buyer - Basir Salleh.

    XXXX Island

  • The Great Barrier Reef [video]

    The Great Barrier Reef [video]
    World

    Welcome to Coal World!

    One of the biggest environmental battles Australia has ever seen is unfolding. The problem is, few are aware of it.

    "Welcome to Coal World" is the animation every Australian and anyone who cares about the future of the planet must watch. This creative masterpiece manages the perfect balance of entertainment and education.

    It could also mean the world of difference for our national treasure, the Great Barrier Reef, which is under threat from an unprecedented expansion of coal mining and exports.

    This newly-released animation is produced by award-winning film maker, Daniel Bird. Daniel won Best Animated Short at Slamdance in 2010 and a prestigious Golden Drum award in 2011. Based in the Czech Republic, he has carved up the scene in Europe and now lends his talents Downunder.

    Category: Public interest;
    Client: Greenpeace Australia Pacific;
    Agency: Daniel Bird;
    Production: Daniel Bird;
    Country: Australia;
    Director: Daniel Bird;
    Copywriter: Daniel Bird;
    Production company: Savage;
    Designer: Jaroslav Mrazek;
    Illustrator: Jaroslav Mrazek.

    The Coal Expansion

  • Employees of agency ZUJI protest

    Employees of agency ZUJI protest
    Australian travel agency ZUJI has solved unusual way to notify inhabitants of Sydney on commission cancellation for booking.

    The erotic protest

    The group of young men without trousers, but with posters marched on a city, crying out the slogan "No pants no fees" which also has been printed and on underwear of promoters. Handbills were in passing distributed.

    The agency urges all wishing to join protest action against the commissions for booking.

    Erotic protest

    Sexual protest

    The sexual protest

  • Jumbo UGG Tall Boots 35cm

    Jumbo UGG Tall Boots 35cm

    The Real UGG Boots

    Ugg boots

    High boots Jumbo UGG Tall Boots of 35cm.
    Stars of Hollywood, as well as the overwhelming majority of the population of Australia already have made the choice in favor of footwear UGG. It not only stylishly, but is convenient.
    Buy the Australian footwear and feel a real Australian cosines, comfort and heat!

    Jumbo UGG Tall Boots 35cm (UGG)

    * Classical high boots (UGG), style of traditional Australian footwear. The cafe, cinema and walks on the nature are irreplaceable for campaigns on shops.
    * Style: 35,5cm are long.
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    * The Sole: Easy strong synthetic EVA a sole. A leather support.
    * Colors: pink, violet, chocolate, beige, brown, black.
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  • In case of an attack of vampires

    In case of an attack of vampires
    attack of vampires

    In a threshold of the beginning of television show True Blood in Oklands, New Zealand, promoters have placed wooden displays in case actions will be beyond a set … Well, or for advertising...
    To tear off and stick directly into heart!