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y separately published work icon Close to You : The Lisa Bellear Picture Show anthology   poetry   art work   essay  
Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Close to You : The Lisa Bellear Picture Show
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Supported by Victoria University, the Koorie Heritage Trust toured the exhibition; Close to You: The Lisa Bellear Picture Show. The exhibition and catalogue pay tribute to the life and work of Lisa Bellear. 

Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Koorie Heritage Trust , 2016 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Forword, Tom Mosby , single work essay (p. 4-5)
Hanover Street Brunswick 3056i"Cruisin' - on my way with a keen", Lisa Bellear , single work poetry (p. 8-9)
Keep on Keeping On, Kim Kruger , single work biography

'It has been ten years since Lisa Bellear's too early death in 2006 during NAIDOC week, her favourite time of year. Her iconic poem A Suitcase Full of Mould presciently questions if she will life to 46, given this was the average life expectancy for Aboriginal women in Victoria in the 1990s. She died at 45.' (Introduction)

(p. 10-11)
Keep Fighting, Keep Speaking Out, Lisa Bellear , single work essay

'Since the invasion, one in six Aboriginal children has been removed from their natural family. I was one of those victims. Because of the support and love of some close friends who are more like family, I can now call myself a survivor.' (Introduction)

(p. 12-22)
A Suitcase Full of Mouldi"Imagine alienation", Lisa Bellear , single work poetry (p. 27-29)
Lisa Bellear : Celebrity Snapper and Photographer of Modern Life, Max Delany , single work biography

'There is now an extensive and growing counter-archive of photography by Indigenous artists which records the subjective experience of Aboriginal people, returns the colonising gaze, and redresses a panoply of misinformed authoritarian images and cultural assumptions in ways which are set at once dignified, defiant, assertive and subversive. ' (Introduction)

(p. 30-33)
Snap Happy, Destiny Deacon , single work prose (p. 34-35)
Lisa Marie Bellear - Large of Heart and Soul, Brenda Croft , single work prose (p. 38-42)
Artist Unknown (for All Indigenous/Colonised Artists Inspired by a Visit to the Art Gallery of New South Wales to Look at Destiny Deacon's Work)i"Artist unknown", Lisa Bellear , single work poetry (p. 44-46)
Grassroots Politics Not Respectability Politics, Celeste Liddle , single work prose

'Lisa was radically intersectional well before it became a mere buzz word for the millennials, for she truly lived the idea that each of the movements she was involved in needed to investigate the ways it oppressed in order to become effective.' (Introduction)

(p. 50-52)
Feminism, Curlyism and Creativity, Lisa Bellear , single work prose

'When I was asked to speak as a 'radical feminist by and organiser, I asked...'Hey what is a radical feminist?' There was a pause at the end of the phone, mmm well, anyway to make life easier (for the organisers), I agreed.' (Introduction)

(p. 54-55)
In the Picture, Virginia Fraser , single work poetry

Lisa Bellear's public interface was warm and seemingly unjudgmental, but her photographs of signs and graffiti, for instance, show a sly, dry sense of humour. She heroised certain people, but was quick to record their public difficulties or falls from grace as many shots of Lowitja O'Dohohue and Geoff Clarke on newspaper front pages and TV screens reveal.' (Introduction)

(p. 60-63)
Close to You, Nellie Green , single work biography (p. 64-66)
Act Natural! Act Natural! Smile! Relax! and Thank You, Lisa Bellear , single work prose (p. 67-71)
Lisai"Quickly, and often late, she's arrive", Ardy Tibby , single work poetry (p. 72)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Koorie Heritage Trust , 2016 .
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      • Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name at the Koori Heritage 21 May-17 July 2016

      ISBN: 9780994570802
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