Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 Too Dark For The Light Horse : An Exhibition of Photographs and Documents Depicting Aboriginal Involvement In The Australian Army
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At the time of his employment at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, David Huggonson researched and compiled an 'exhibition of photographs and documents depicting Aboriginal involvement in the Australian Army', through the Australian War Memorial. The exhibition toured Australia, then went on permanent display at the Australian War Memorial in 1993.

Source: Australian War Memorial.

Notes

  • Known Exhibitions:

    Albury Regional Museum, 11 August - 27 September 1988.

    State Library of Victoria, Melbourne March-April 1989.

    Castlemaine Historical Sociey, Castlemaine 5-27 June 2000

    Wathaurong Aboriginal Cooperative, North Geelong 30 June-17 July 2000

    Gunditjmara Aboriginal Cooperative, Warnambool 20-30 July 2000

    Brambuk Cultural Centre, Halls Gap 4-29 August 2000

    Living Museum of the West, Maribyrnong 5-25 September 2000

    Clunes Museum, Clunes 28 September-24 October 2000

    George Evans Museum, Sunbury 25 October-21 November 2000

    Swinburne University, Healesville 24 November-3 December 2000

    Albany Residency Museum 5-29 April 2001

    Bussleton Jetty Interpretive Centre 1-28 May 2001

    Goldfields War Museum, Boulder, WA 30 May-30 July 2001

    WA Museum Geraldton 3 August-2 September 2001

    Centenary Bakery Museum, Hurstville, NSW 13 September-11 October 2001

    Tuggeranong Homestead, ACT 18 October-4 November 2001

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Works about this Work

Transnational War Memories in Australia's Heritage Field Emma Waterton , Jason Dittmer , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Media International Australia , vol. 158 no. 1 2016; (p. 58-68)

'Academic interest in Australia’s heritage field has developed primarily around the ways its subject has been used to support dominant national interests. Understandings of heritage, however, are increasingly shaped by developments occurring in other nation-states, as well as those occurring at the international level. This article considers the changing nature of Australian notions of heritage within the context of the ‘transnational turn’. It does so in two ways. First, the article traces talk of transnationalism at a general level, considering especially theorisations around a materialist understanding of memory. Second, it considers what new representations of the past such a theorisation might call forth in the Australian context. As a point of illustration, the article focuses on the specific case of Australian war memories and their articulation within the heritage field.'

Source: Sage Publications.

Too Dark for the Light Horse David Huggonson , 1987 single work prose
— Appears in: Land Rights News , December vol. 2 no. 5 1987; (p. 31)

A brief article about the exhibition compiled by David Huggonson titled 'Too Dark for the Light Horse'.

Too Dark for the Light Horse David Huggonson , 1987 single work prose
— Appears in: Land Rights News , December vol. 2 no. 5 1987; (p. 31)

A brief article about the exhibition compiled by David Huggonson titled 'Too Dark for the Light Horse'.

Transnational War Memories in Australia's Heritage Field Emma Waterton , Jason Dittmer , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Media International Australia , vol. 158 no. 1 2016; (p. 58-68)

'Academic interest in Australia’s heritage field has developed primarily around the ways its subject has been used to support dominant national interests. Understandings of heritage, however, are increasingly shaped by developments occurring in other nation-states, as well as those occurring at the international level. This article considers the changing nature of Australian notions of heritage within the context of the ‘transnational turn’. It does so in two ways. First, the article traces talk of transnationalism at a general level, considering especially theorisations around a materialist understanding of memory. Second, it considers what new representations of the past such a theorisation might call forth in the Australian context. As a point of illustration, the article focuses on the specific case of Australian war memories and their articulation within the heritage field.'

Source: Sage Publications.

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