Julian Burnside and Kate Durham Papers
Correspondence from asylum seekers detained on Nauru; files of reports, newspaper cuttings and photographs relating to the asylum seekers; sewing projects created by the asylum seekers; paintings and relief sculptures created by Kate Durham.
Burnside, Julian
Seven steel framed display panels, 180cm x 90 cm
Three framed paintings.
Eleven framed works of relief sculpture.
273 painted panels, oil on composition board, each 20 x 20cm, which form three works collectively titled SIEV X.
Three additional painted panels, each 20 x 20 cm, in Box 4.
Template for placement of panels or tiles for display purposes (in Oversize folder 1).
Sculpture depicting two refugee boats on scales. Wood, ceramic and metal.
Comprises: 1 sculpture, 11 framed works of relief sculpture, 3 paintings and 273 panels of the artwork SIEV X. Captions and ephemera relating to exhibitions in Box 4.
7 steel framed display panels, 180cm x 90cm
Durham, Kate, 1957-
Sewing projects, patterns and dolls created by asylum seekers while held in detention on Naru and put on display in the exhibition And everyone was an optimist at the gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in 2005. Four satin covered cakes of soap.
53 pillows created for exhibition Sewing all the way to here at Shepparton Art Gallery in 2006.
Files of reports, newspaper cuttings, photographs and ephemera relating to advocacy activities and exhibitions.
This series is comprised of forty-seven (47) files of correspondence from asylum seekers held in detention on Nauru by the Australian Government.