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Photo: Elizabeth Mann
The Record Keepers
Photo: Elizabeth Mann

The Record Keepers

Date2006
Maker Karen Casey Australian, born 1956
Label Text"From the ancient practice of hand-stenciling to the elaborate science of cartography, human beings possess an innate desire to record and chart their arrivals and journeys through life. Drawing from Abel Tasman's 1642 expedition journal and on the cave art signatures of my Tasmanian forebears, this work responds to both the spirit of exploration and discovery, and to the enduring sense of connection one has with one's country and place of origin. Like the contours of the explorers' maps, the tracings and imprints of clasped hands reveal the passage of time, metaphorically uniting peoples of different cultures through the myriad of life's experience, each existing within a particular geographic location and each with a story to tell."--Karen Casey
Object number2007.81.1
Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann
Credit LineGift of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
DimensionsImage: 15 3/4 x 21 1/4 in. (40 x 54 cm) Sheet: 22 1/16 x 29 15/16 in. (56 x 76 cm)
MediumPhoto-lithograph in one color, printed from one CTP off-set photo litho plate
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Garry Namponan
2006
Object number: 2007.81.6
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Dhuwarrwarr Marika
2006
Object number: 2007.81.4
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Pedro (Gurrumaiyuwa) Wonaeamirri
2006
Object number: 2007.81.10
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Chris Pease
2006
Object number: 2007.81.8
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Janice Murray
2006
Object number: 2007.81.5
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Laurel Nannup
2006
Object number: 2007.81.7
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Alan Mansell
2006
Object number: 2007.81.3
Untitled
Robert Whitman
1973
Object number: 76.87.30
Roy Lichtenstein
1962
Object number: 93.96
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Djalinda Yunupingu Dulamari
2006
Object number: 2007.81.2
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Leonie Pootchemunka
2006
Object number: 2007.81.9