About this Event
In recent years, the State Library of New South Wales has been collecting art and documents created in Australia’s Second World War internment camps by internees who arrived on the military transport ship, Dunera. It is now one of the most important repositories of Dunera internee material in the world.
Among those transported on the Dunera in 1940 were many highly skilled artists who produced hundreds of skilful images of life in Australia’s internment camps during the Second World War. Their artwork illustrates not only their skill in portraying the Australian landscape and each other, but how the trauma of physical and cultural displacement was alleviated through drawing and recording their impressions.
Lead Curator Louise Anemaat will recount the story of the Dunera and its ‘enemy alien’ internees with a focus on the nature and role of art created in internment, and its legacy.
Louise Anemaat is Lead Curator of the exhibition, Dunera: Stories of Internment. She is the author of Natural Curiosity: Unseen Art of the First Fleet (NewSouth Publishing, 2014), an analysis of the traditions of natural history art production in Australia and Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
State Library of New South Wales, Dixson Room, Ground Floor, Sydney, Australia
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