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A conversation around uncomfortable truths and the current legacy of colonialism with reference to work by child artists from Carrolup.

Zandra Yeaman, Curator of Discomfort at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, talks with Michelle Broun, curator of Tracing the Art of a Stolen Generation: the child artists of Carrolup, on the last day that this exhibition is on display in Manchester.

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The conversation will finish with a handover of the exhibition from the Portico Library to representatives at The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery Chapel, University of Glasgow via Zoom. After the event there will be a final chance to see the the exhibition in Manchester.

Biographies:

Zandra Yeaman is Curator of Discomfort at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow.

Michelle Broun is an Yindjibarndi women from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. She is currently the Curator, Australian First Nations Art, at John Curtin Gallery, Western Australia, an focusing on the collection of artworks created by the child artists of Carrolup Native Settlement from 1946-1950.

Michelle has 25 years’ experience working with Australian First Nation’s arts and cultural communities. She collaborates with cultural leaders, researchers, artists, and producers to develop projects which empower Aboriginal people and build bridges across cultures. She has worked as an artist, curator, in cultural planning and policy, and as a creative producer for Local and State governments and the not- for-profit sectors. As Manager of Community Indigenous Stories at the Film and Television Institute of WA, she produced over 30 oral-histories on film. She was lead curator of the Ngalang Koort Boodja Wirn exhibition at the WA Museum Boola Bardip which opened in 2020. She is currently enrolled in the Masters of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University and has special interests in cultural safety, rights in records, decolonising collections and repatriation.