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Book Launch


Shoosh! A History of the Campfire Group:

Sunday 26th June 2005, 2 pm

To be Launched by Michael Eather,
including floor talk on artists exhibiting in 'Smoke'
“… in all of their phases Campfire has retained a unique style. There have been other organisations, art dealers, agents, consultants, and advisors who have acted as mediators between Australian Indigenous culture and the non-Indigenous artworld and there have been community cooperatives and individual Indigenous artists who have attempted to undertake this role also. Campfire has been different from all of these. Its difference has given it a privileged role in the development of a market for contemporary Indigenous art and indeed for effecting a kind of cultural reconciliation—not just between European settler culture and Indigenous culture but also within Indigenous culture itself.  From the beginning, it was conceived as a collaborative affair.”




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