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Reflections of Country
Mixed media artwork and cultural artefacts by Duncan Smith
Description | About the Artist
Visitor Centre Gallery
17 July – 28 August 2012
A selection of mixed media artwork incorporating photography overlayed on paintings, and cultural artefacts, crafted by local Wiradjuri man, Duncan Smith. The images reflect Duncan's observations in the Australian National Botanic Gardens interposed with his story of family, tradition and cultural land.
About the artist
Duncan Smith is an acclaimed visual, musical and performing artist based in the ACT.
A proud Wiradjuri man and father of five, Duncan engages indigenous and non-indigenous audiences through his art.
He won the 2003 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Artist of the Year Award, and is the great-nephew of Tracker Riley, the first Aboriginal sergeant in the NSW police force. He has a vision of a brighter future ahead. "You hear about businesses employing Indigenous people; I want to hear about Indigenous bosses employing non-Indigenous staff. I want to see more Indigenous people in politics. I want my kids to travel the world, own the world, fit in to every part of it.