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15/03/19

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Originally posted by RedCedar: ↑

What is the Shadow?

https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/depictions-of-aboriginal-people-in-colonial-australian-art-settler-and-unsettling-narratives-in-the-works-of-robert-dowling/

When Aboriginals are seen as the lowest rung in society, placed at the same level as pets in paintings a shadow is created.

The near absence of Indigenous people in mid-nineteenth-century colonial painting has been one of the most potent assertions of continued settler presence in Australia. This invisibility reinforced the myth of Terra Nullius and rendered further colonial expansionism picturesque.

Many colonial artists were reluctant to insinuate the original owners into the landscape, thereby avoiding complicated issues of dispossession, resistance and guilt.

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"When Aboriginals are seen as the lowest rung in society, placed at the same level as pets in paintings a shadow is created.

Pets do not require an inflated dole, and do not rape their children, or beat their mates. Pets give people joy.
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