SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER 2024 | INSTORE EVENT
3.30pm for a 4pm start | 60 mins
Join us for the launch of Design & Building on Country - First Knowledges for Younger Readers.
ABOUT THE BOOK
From boomerangs to buildings, fire carriers to fashion, learn about Indigenous building and design on Country and how it continues today. What do you need to know to prosper as a people for 65,000 years or more? Join designer and artist Alison Page alongside anthropologist and architect Paul Memmott as they share some of the incredible inventions created by the oldest continuing culture in the world. From boomerangs to buildings, fire carriers to fashion, learn about Indigenous building and design on Country and how it continues today. With striking colour illustrations from Archibald Prize winning artist Blak Douglas.
ABOUT THE CREAT0RS
Alison Page is a descendant of the Walbanga and Wadi Wadi people of the Tharawal and Yuin nations and an award-winning artist whose work over twenty-five years promotes the creative expression of Aboriginal identity in public art, design and film.
Paul Memmott is a descendant of Scottish potters and painters. He has had a fifty-year life experience and career working as an architect, anthropologist and agent for change with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across Australia.
Blak Douglas is a modern artist with proud Dhungutti Aboriginal origins. His works are culturally and politically charged with a sense of irony, parody and truth. Blak is a trained illustrator, designer and a self-taught painter.
