An exhibition of colonial artwork is aiming to shed new light on Tasmania's brutal Black War, in which hundreds of Indigenous people were killed. In 1826, Governor George Arthur declared martial ...

The national picture: the art of Tasmania's Black War opens on Saturday, May 12 at the National Gallery of Australia and runs until Saturday, July 29. Admission is free.

Duterrau, Glover, Bock: National Picture, Art of Tasmania’s Black War. The violence between colonialists and Tasmanian Aborigines gave way to a brief hope, captured by artists.

The Black Line was a failure, but Governor Arthur's broader Black War (1824-1832), and colonisation generally, ... Tense Past runs until November 3 at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

A Tasmanian Requiem brings together Western and Aboriginal voices to confront the violence of the state’s Black War. ... created in 1899 and held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart.

Nicholas Clements, The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania (2014, University of Queensland Press). In the heat of commemoration of Australians’ involvement in the first world war, it ...

Mr Parr will draw and meditate in the container, with air supplied by a fan. Dark Mofo creative director Leigh Carmichael said the work would make a poignant statement about the Black War.

These are some of the 1000-plus people killed on Tasmanian soil in the Black War, according to work by the historian Lyndall Ryan that reignites a critical dispute in Australian Aboriginal history.

THE centenary of World War I is prompting ANZAC descendants to think more deeply about their family histories.