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1 online resource (streaming video file) (28 min. 42 sec.) ; 171174038 bytes |
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*Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program contains images and voices of people who have died*Danny Eastwood is an influential and groundbreaking Australian Indigenous artist who has been working in the Blacktown community for over 30 years. At 68 years old he has retired three times - but unable to say no, Eastwood finds himself continuing at a tireless pace teaching art classes throughout his community. Eastwood is a prolific and diverse artist practising as a cartoonist, illustrator and painter. He is also a very modest man who won the Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize in 2008 for My Reconciliation - pen, ink and watercolour on paper, depicting a scene from the back lane he grew up in as a small boy in inner Sydney.Every fortnight Eastwood has to complete a cartoon for the Koori Mail - something he's been doing for the last 20 years. In between these deadlines he travels across Mt Druitt and Sydney teaching art to inmates from Long Bay jail, and to Elders, school kids and community groups as well as working on new public art works.Light From the Shadows gives an intimate and informative insight into Eastwood, his politics and life.It includes interviews with Kirstie Parker - Managing Editor of the Koori Mail, Pam Eastwood, Danny's wife, and academic Professor Larissa Behrendt |
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Broadcast 2013-07-09 at 22:00:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Aboriginal Australians in art.
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Art -- Study and teaching.
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Cartoonists.
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Man-woman relationships.
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Streaming video
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Harvey, John, director
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Behrendt, Larissa, contributor
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Collins, Chris, contributor
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Cunningham, Stella, contributor
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Eastwood, Danny, contributor
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Eastwood, Pam, contributor
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Parker, Kirstie, contributor
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