Ancestors, Artefacts, Empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish Museum Valentines Day Named with a simple word

Named with a simple word meaning ‘cloth’

opened up new possibilities for the younger generation of painters and influenced a new direction in Australian art

Made from super soft cotton

political and cultural contexts

Viviane Sassen and Amalia Ulman

Ancestors, Artefacts, Empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish Museum Valentines Day Named with a simple wordMuseums 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