from Invasion to Recognition
Eliza Tree
From Invasion to Recognition.
Revisiting Indigenous Cultural Landscapes, before the gold rush.
Exploration & Invasion to Goldrush.
1835 – 1851.
Paintings, Maps & Text.
And New Audio Visual !
Exhibition : 10 – 18 March. 12 – 5 pm.
Launch Sat 10th March. 6 – 7 pm.
Loft Gallery. 22 Exhibit.
22 Hargraves St Castlemaine.
In 1835 John Batman established an illegal settlement in Port Phillip Bay.
In 1836, Major T L Mitchell’s Expedition journeyed through Dja Dja Wurrung Country, the Castlemaine region – describing it as the “Australia Felix”
-the happy & abundant Australia.
Home of the Dja Dja Wurrung Peoples, for many millennia,
Living rich Cultural and Spiritual lives,
in abundant cultural, cultivated and created Landscapes.
Within a diverse & extraordinary bio region.
It’s time to revisit this forgotten Chapter.
Exploration, Invasion, Land rush to Gold rush. 1836 – 1851.
It’s time to broaden the grand narrative of the colonial gold rushes,
to reveal Indigenous Cultural landscapes, enjoying a temperate climate within a well watered and abundant geological & ecological region;
Land Grab and Pastoral Invasion of an unprecedented scale; Dispossession & dislocation of Indigenous Peoples;
Before the wild and heroic Victorian Gold Rush(s).
