Bennelong - Under Squires Orchard, 2021
Acrylic & collage on board
120 x 120cm
BKE002
Copyright The Artist
Woollarawarre Bennelong died on Jan 3rd 1813 and was buried at that time on the banks of the Parramatta River, beneath the orchard at brewer James Squire’s property at what...
Woollarawarre Bennelong died on Jan 3rd 1813 and was buried at that time on the banks of the Parramatta River, beneath the orchard at brewer James Squire’s property at what was then called Kissing Point (Wallumatta).
In 2011, Peter Mitchell of Macquarie University found Bennelong’s remains untouched in a residential garden in the suburb we now call Putney (Wallumatta).
In November 2018, the NSW Government announced that it had purchased the property and would turn the site into a public memorial to Bennelong, together with a museum commemorating the impact of European invasion on the Indigenous peoples of the Sydney area.
I’d like Bennelong to receive more, and greater, respect and acknowledgement for his role in Australia’s modern history and would love to see a beautiful and appropriate memorial to his memory created under the guidance of Eora elders.
It’d be a good thing.
In 2011, Peter Mitchell of Macquarie University found Bennelong’s remains untouched in a residential garden in the suburb we now call Putney (Wallumatta).
In November 2018, the NSW Government announced that it had purchased the property and would turn the site into a public memorial to Bennelong, together with a museum commemorating the impact of European invasion on the Indigenous peoples of the Sydney area.
I’d like Bennelong to receive more, and greater, respect and acknowledgement for his role in Australia’s modern history and would love to see a beautiful and appropriate memorial to his memory created under the guidance of Eora elders.
It’d be a good thing.