Journal: No. 1. 'Land beyond Time', 1982

Containers:: Folio-Box 8
Component identifier:: File 21
Content Summary:: Focused on trip to North Western Australia as part of group including Vince Serventy, Geoffery Dutton, Dame Mary Durack and Alex Bortignon. Descriptions and sketches (ink, pencil, and watercolour)of the trip including of: landscape, people, buildings, coastal scenes, birds, animals, rocky outcrops and ranges, fossils, desert, vegetation, sand drifts and machinery. Sketches of scenes at indigenous outstations, camps and missions and of tribal elders. Reflections on indigenous culture and issues. Comments on the landscape and its portrayal in art. Photographs including of: trip members (including of Olsen); people encountered; land and beachscapes; rocks; termite mounds; trees and plants; gravestones and buildings. Note: this journal is linked to Journals No. 15 and No. 16, which together form a record of related trips to northwest Australia, the outcome of which included an exhibition of works by Olsen and the publications: 'Land Beyond Time: a Modern Exploration of Australia's North Western Frontiers', and 'Land beyond time/ paintings and drawings by John Olsen'.

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