Self-Guided Trail: Seeds of Change: Self-Guided Tour
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Fiona Hall works across a broad range of media, including photography, painting, sculpture and moving image, exploring themes such as environmentalism, globalisation, war and conflict. Occupied territory was Fiona Hall’s first work to refer to the British colonisation of Australia. The work consists of four native and four introduced plant specimens. The four introduced species – fig, pear, acorn and peach – are comprised of red and white beads, while the four native species – angophora, banksia, Norfolk pine and Sydney wattle – are constructed from black beads and nails. The use of beads and nails refers to the ‘gifts’ offered to Aboriginal people by the colonisers, including James Cook and Sir Joseph Banks.