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The Women’s Club presents Michaela Kalowski in conversation with Djon Mundine, Rhonda Davis, and Juno Gemes on Until Justice Comes: Fifty Years of The Movement for Indigenous Rights.
This significant book brings together a powerful collection of over 220 photographs, fusing Juno Gemes’ current and continuing work with her unique living archive. It is the summation of a career witnessing and advocating for change: a collection of photographs making visible the history of the First Nations people’s struggle for justice over the last fifty years in Australia, providing a visual history and background of The Movement leading up to the Voice referendum of late 2023. Until Justice Comes is a landmark publication based on collaboration, revealing the true history of Australia. The uncovering of an often-invisible history of resistance and the fight for self-determination has long been at the heart of Juno Gemes’ engagement with the First Nations people she has known and worked with over decades and generations. These photographs include portraits of political and cultural leaders and intimate community events as well as activism played out on the streets. Continuing her collaborative approach, the book includes new writings and poems by key contributors including the Honourable Linda Burney MP, Larissa Behrendt, Djon Mundine, Fred Myers, Frances Peters-Little, John Maynard, Catherine de Lorenzo, and Ali Cobby Eckermann. Photographs covering crucial moments in history including the Redfern Revolution, the land rights campaigns, the National Apology to the Stolen Generations, the election of eleven Indigenous Members to the 47th Federal Parliament, and the preparations for the 2023 Referendum on the Voice to Parliament, form the backbone of this book.
About the Author and Speaker Panel:
Photographer and social justice activist Juno Gemes has spent much of her long career documenting the lives and struggles of First Nations people. Born in Budapest, Gemes moved to Australia with her family in 1949. She held her first solo exhibition, We Wait No More, in 1982; the same year she exhibited photographs in the group shows After the Tent Embassy and Apmira: Artists for Aboriginal Land Rights. In 2003 the National Portrait Gallery exhibited her portraits of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander reconciliation activists and personalities, Proof: Portraits from the Movement 1978–2003, and has since acquired many of her photographs. Gemes was one of ten photographers invited to document that National Apology in Canberra in 2008. The Macquarie University Art Gallery held a survey exhibition of her work, The Quiet Activist: Juno Gemes, in 2019 ISBN: 978-0-6459840-2-6
Michaela Kalowski is an interviewer, moderator & curator for writers and ideas festivals. Highlight interviews include Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Michelle de Kretser, & Stan Grant. She's curator of Big Weekend of Books, ABC RN’s annual on-air writers’ festival. She produces & hosts a monthly books conversation event for Petersham Bowling Club. Michaela has conducted radio interviews and presented programs across ABC radio & TV. She's co-presenter & co-writer of a two-part podcast for ABC RN, tracing part of her family’s history, called Laya’s Way Home.
Djon Mundine is a charismatic art curator, writer. speaker and activist from Bundjalung nation and Irish decent. He has held senior curatorial positions at state and national institutions (AGNSW,MCA,QAG,NAM) Heywood Gallery London and other international institutions. Djon is a seminal figure in the critical writing on Australia’s First Peoples cultural expression. Djon recently wrote the catalogue essay for Kamilaroi/ Bigamul artist Archie Moore’s Golden Lion winning first of Australia’s Kith and Kin at the Venice Biennale 2024. He has contributed an import essay to Until Justice Comes.
Rhonda Davis has been senior curator at Macquarie University Art Gallery for 25 years working firstly with VC Di Yewbury. In 2003 she co - curated with Andrew Sayers Director of The National Portrait Gallery a major exhibition Proof Portraits from the Movement 1978 -2003 Juno Gemes solo exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery and Macquarie University Art Gallery. Rhonda is also a distinguished writer whose research interests include Australian Modernism. She also contributed an essay to Until Justice Comes and worked as Head of the editorial team on the publication.
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