Ancestors, Artefacts, Empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish Museum Valentines Day Made from super soft cotton

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but has particularly enriched the Gallery’s holdings of Indigenous Australian art and works by women artists

Viviane Sassen and Amalia Ulman

after years of artistic obscurity

this work realises the architects’ vision of animating the building’s facade

Ancestors, Artefacts, Empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish Museum Valentines Day Made from super soft cottonMuseums across the United Kingdom and Ireland hold over 39,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks and artefacts. Gifted, sold, exchanged and bartered by Indigenous people, and accepted, bought and taken by explorers, travellers and colonial collectors and these rare objects date from 1770 to the present day, representing all regions of the vast Australian continent. Dispersed and distanced from their origins, 160 objects are gathered