Abstract
Unfortunately, to date, no visual records of the girls are apparent, no photographs are archived from this period as witness to their lives and events. As a result of these findings and the government ambivalence to this shameful period in child welfare, a site specific exhibition of 16 handmade artist books was installed in an atmospheric convict built space on the island. The contemporary archive exhibition created an empathetic framework responding to this colonial period of child welfare which had been previously neglected. It gave a voice to the girls and allowed a transition of information from passive to public by tactile engagement with books.
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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
"Ethnography", " Creativity", " Aesthetics"
Digital Media
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