Related events
- Exhibition Opening
Fri 7 Oct 6pm - Attend - Culture Club Student Event
Tues 25 Oct 5:30pm - Attend - Pearlshells
Thurs 10 Nov 6pm - Attend - Family Day: Mapping and Drawing
Sat 19 Nov 1pm - Attend - Friday Talk: Participatory Mapping
Fri 2 Dec 1pm - Attend
Gallery opening Hours
Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm.
Reconsider notions of ownership, place and histories through mapping and practices.
Presented by the Berndt Museum.
The human ability to tell stories and picture the world through mark making provides us with a historical references to place and location today. Saltwater Mapping along Australia’s West Coast is a continuing practice that began long before Europeans arrived, to proclaim ownership, unsettling our lands and shaping our current colonial backdrop.
Saltwater Mapping aims to respond to the 400th anniversary of Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog’s landing in Western Australia with an exploration into the way in which humanity has mapped the WA coastline over the past four centuries.
The exhibition invites audiences to reconsider notions of ownership, place and histories through mapping and practices.
Image: Indonesian fishing boat off One Arm Point. April 1974. Courtesy of Kim Akerman. #571
Exhibition duration
8 October - 10 December 2016
University information
CRICOS Code: 00126G
