As the Project’s emerging curator I’m one of three young professionals learning about the Aboriginal arts industry. I get to help tell the story of the Canning Stock Route which tells the history from an Aboriginal world view… so that there are no missing pieces for our history. My role is to help enable audiences to our exhibition learn about who all these artists are today. – Louise Mengil, 2009

Curators Workshops

During seven week-long sessions, spread over 14 months, a team comprising co-curators Hayley Atkins, Doolmarria Louise Mengil, Murungkurr Terry Murray, John Carty, Monique La Fontaine and Carly Davenport, with consulting curator Wally Caruana, who worked as a mentor to the team in the project’s early stages, struggled to determine which works would be included in the final collection, and then which of those works would be included in the Yiwarra Kuju exhibition. From late 2007 to late 2008, team members immersed themselves in the works of art and in the voices of artists; gradually the immense jigsaw of the collection began to be pieced together as the curatorial team gained understanding of the stories in the works, and their relation to specific Countries and family connections across the stock route region.