rock art

Aboriginal paintings, Carnarvon National Park, 1965. Slides by Richard Hopkins, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Aboriginal art, Carnarvon Gorge, 1979. Slides by John Boult, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Aboriginal art, Carnarvon Gorge National Park, 1971. Slide by Allan Webb, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Aboriginal rock art, Carnarvon Gorge, 1980. Slides by Michael Keniger, Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Aboriginal rock art, Carnarvon National Park, 1967. Slides by Lynne Cain, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Quinkan Aboriginal rock art near Laura, 1988. Slide by Audrey Johnston, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Curiosity: knowledge through the landscape

For Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders, everything in the landscape has its place of importance according to spiritual beliefs systems, and knowledge of this has been handed down orally

Robert Logan Jack, Aboriginal cave-drawings on the Palmer gold fields, Plate 1, Royal Society of Queensland, vol XI, 1895

Memory: how people remember the landscape

The markers of how we remember in the landscape seem to be everywhere.

rock art

Aboriginal paintings, Carnarvon National Park, 1965

Aboriginal art, Carnarvon Gorge, 1979

Aboriginal art, Carnarvon Gorge National Park, 1971

Aboriginal rock art, Carnarvon Gorge, 1980

Aboriginal rock art, Carnarvon National Park, 1967

Quinkan Aboriginal rock art, 1988

Curiosity: knowledge through the landscape

Aboriginal cave drawings, 1895

Memory: how people remember the landscape