Photographs of Aboriginal events and portraits, 1981-1988 / by Juno Gemes

PXD 1053

fonds

1981-1988

874488

18 photographic prints - gelatin silver - 50.6 x 60.3 cm or smaller

Juno Gemes has recorded Aboriginal personalities and the struggle for Aboriginal rights for the past 30 years.

These exhibition prints are of Land Rights marches 1981, National Aboriginal Country and Western Music Festival at Blacktown in 1981, March for Justice and Hope Invasion Day 1988 as well as portraits of Aboriginal men and women.

1981
Land Rights March, NADOC Day 1981
1. Land Rights March NADOC Day. Gary Foley speaks outside Parliament House - NSW 1981
2. Yuin Elder Percy Mumbler and Kevin Cook. Land Rights March - outside Parliament House – NSW, NADOC Day 1981
3. NADOC Day. Land Rights March to NSW Parliament, 1981. Mrs Bostock, Jean Morris (Wright) and Pam Henry

National Aboriginal Country and Western Music Festival, Blacktown, 1981
4. Jambe Left Leg Roche and Johnny Marshall, musicians at National Aboriginal Country Western Music Festival, Blacktown, Sydney 1981
5. [Jamble Left Leg Roche dancing at National Aboriginal Country Western Music Festival, Blacktown, 1981]
6. [Musicians from Yirakalla play National Aboriginal Country & Western Music Festival, Blacktown, 1981]
7. Slim Dusty plays at National Aboriginal Country & Western Music Festival, Blacktown, Sydney 1981. Printed 1988

8. National Aboriginal Congress members leave for [South] Africa, Sydney Airport, 1981. Hon. Gough Whitlam, Ossie Cruise and Michael Anderson.
9. Apmira - Artists for Land Rights, Paddington Town Hall, Sydney 1981. Bunduk Marika, Juno Gemes, Wandjuk Marika

1983
10. Benny Zabbles. Portrait - Anti-Nuke Activist, 1983
11. Maureen Watson, Culture Teacher, operated first Koorie Art Gallery in George St, Redfern, takes exhibition to Cowra school children, 1983. Printed 1988
12. Johnny Marshall, Cultural Teacher/Musician demonstrated boomerang throwing, Allambie Heights School, Sydney, 1983
13. Yuin Elder Uncle Percy Mumbler looking for medicine grass, Wreck Bay, South Coast NSW 1983

1984
14. At Mum Shirl's Christmas Party, Redfern Oval, Sydney, 1984

1985
15. Jeffery Samuels wrapped in his painting. First Boomalli studio, Chippendale, Sydney, 1985

1988
Long March for Justice and Hope, Invasion Day 1988 (nos. 16-18)
16. Redfern Park gathering. The long march for Justice and Hope Invasion Day, 1988
17. Aboriginal Tent Embassy at Lady Macquarie's Chair, Invasion Day 1988
18. Our Land Our Life - mother and child, Redfern Oval, Sydney, March for Justice and Hope, Invasion Day, 1988. Printed 2003

Chronological

Captions on back of photographs. Where there is no inscription, title is supplied by photographer from correspondence file.