FRINGE FESTIVAL 2025

As an Artist and Expeditioner, I travel through maps and text, space and time, exploring ideas and realms – seeking to understand the Colonial Invasion of Australia, via Botany Bay.

‘Discovery’ of Australia, via Botany Bay Who knew……? Paintings, Images, Maps and Text

This exhibition represents the latest chapter in a fascinating journey towards addressing Colonial Denialism, instead, looking towards revisionist Truth Telling.

From Captain Cooks ‘secret instructions’, to the deliberate denial of first nations cultures, and cultivation of country.

Throughout many Arts Open, Fringe and Castlemaine State Festival Exhibitions, I have evolved my thoughts, knowledge, images and ideas, in the process of re-interpriting and understanding the myriad of lies and obfuscations, which have been delivered to us, through ‘primary source documents’, Official Journals, public gazettes, etc. – in a fabricated ‘narrative’ of “peaceful settlement”, in ‘unoccupied’ land.

Re-evaluating other perspectives, voices and silences. Public Narrative or Private Correspondence.

Making the Invisible Visible.

Studio: 137 Mostyn St Castlemaine
11-4 pm Sat & Sun :22 March -6 April 2025 or by appointment
elizatree@castlemaine.net