All my Country: The Batchelor I

All my Country: The Batchelor IAll my Country is the first substantive book on the little known Batchelor Institute (BIITE) Art Collection, a unique cultural and artistic resource which has developed over the decades long life of the Institute. The BIITE Art Collection comprises around 1000 artworks primarily by Indigenous artists from the Top End but also including the work of Indigenous Australian artists more broadly, some non Indigenous artists with BIITE affiliations, and from

Whether it's tucking in to a tray of loaded nachos or cosying up with a warm raspberry crumble

Everywhen asks how knowledge systems of Aboriginal people can broaden our understanding of the past and of history

intelligence and heart

Filled with deep secrets but hidden in plain sight

Painting directly onto the pages of commemorative royal photo-books that he had stumbled across at op-shops in Alice Springs

She reveals the importance of extended family and community networks when your immediate loved ones are dealing with endemic poverty and intergenerational trauma

geriatric cat

but only time will tell if she has learnt enough

will it bring hope

the Palmer River Goldfields - properly spun out - should provide enough television material for general exhibition for the next ten years

she suddenly disappears

as well as a recasting of a literary classic that gives a maligned character her own voice