James Tylor & Laura Wills on the forgotten wars

Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery

Curator Danny Lacy talks to James Tylor and Laura Wills, winners of the $15,000 Mornington Peninsula Shire / Beleura - The Tallis Foundation major acquisitive award in the 2018 National Works on Paper. Their award-winning work The Forgotten Wars 2017 was based on town and mining maps from the British Parliamentary papers and Commissioners’ reports on the colonization of Australia. The Australian Frontier wars were a series of armed conflicts, massacres and battles that took place from 1788 to 1930 between the invading British Government and Aboriginal Australians. They talk about this unique collaboration as an Indigenous and a non-indigenous artist and how they are decolonising the Australian frontier war stories. A conversation with MPRG curator Danny Lacy. Our 2018 podcast program is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation. Introduction by Nathan Schroeder, Music courtesy of The Basics