Proof

Portraits from The Movement
1978 – 2003
by Juno Gemes

National Portrait Gallery
Commonwealth Place
10 July to 7 September 2003

The Long March for Justice and Hope

The Long March for Justice and Hope
Invasion Day, La Perouse, NSW 1988

 

Lois O’Donohue


Lois O’Donohue, Reconciliation Walk, Sydney 2000.

 

Senator Aden Ridgeway


Senator Aden Ridgeway, Sydney 2003.

 

Tiwi Dancers


Tiwi Dancers – First Australians 1987.

 

Sea of Hands


Sea of Hands, Australians for Native Title 2000.

 

Always was, Always will be


Always was, Always will be, Canberra 2003.

 

Uluru Handback Ceremony


Uluru Handback Ceremony 1985.

 

You are on Aboriginal Land

You are on Aboriginal Land - Commemorating Uluru Handback
Multijulu Elders and kids, Sir Ninian Stephens, Paddy Uluru, Rosie & Reg
Uluru, Clyde Holding MP, Barry Cohen MP.
Uluru, Northern Territory 1985.

 

Oodgeroo Noonuccal


Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) - Poet, activist, educator
FCAATSI, Organising Committee National Land Rights Action. At her sitting down place Moongalba, Stradbroke Island, Queensland 1982.

 

Gary Foley


Gary Foley, Invasion Day – We Have Survived
Activist, actor, historian, foundation member Tent Embassy, Aboriginal Legal Services, Aboriginal Medical Services, Chairman Aboriginal Arts Board.
La Perouse, Sydney, 1988.

 

Jimmy Little


Jimmy Little - Musician
First album Mysteries of Life (1955). Hit Royal Telephone topped music charts in 1964. Promoted Aboriginal country music in Sydney 1865. Lifelong dedication to Aboriginal music and the community.
Sydney 2003.

 

Lois Cook


Lois Cook - Dancer, model
Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre at Neilson Park,
Sydney 1979.

 

Tommy Lewis


Tommy Lewis – Film Actor
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Newtown, Sydney, 1987.

 

Countrymen


Countrymen: Elders from Arakun and Mornington Island greeting each other before ceremony. Mornington Island, Queensland, 1978.

 

Apmira Artists for Land Rights exhibition opening


Apmira Artists for Land Rights exhibition opening
Bunduk Marika, Juno Gemes, Wandjuk Marika
Paddington Town Hall, Sydney 1982. Jon Lewis.