December 2010
5 posts
“and in the salt chuckle of rocks
with their sea pools, there was the sound...”
– From ‘The Sea is History’ by Derek Walcott
I have always loved Derek Walcott and constantly go back to his poems. I think of ‘The Sea is History’ as we open the marvellous exhibition Yalangbara: Art of the Djang’kawu.
November 2010
10 posts
Museums and their place in the world
In Australia we do have a distinctive place, geographically and geo-politically; we have our own things to say and we have our own ways of doing things. In museums we have a medium through which we can share these distinctive qualities with the world.
A paragraph from my talk at the Lowy Institute today. Read the whole speech.