Encounters: Revealing Stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Objects from the British Museum Publisher / Frances Lincoln simple narratives

simple narratives

with all its wonder

It’s about thinking big

and includes many of the most celebrated male and female artists

Encounters: Revealing Stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Objects from the British Museum Publisher / Frances Lincoln simple narrativesThis book is published to accompany a groundbreaking exhibition at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, in which rare historic objects collected during encounters between settlers and first peoples are displayed alongside more recent artworks and artefacts made in the communities of origin. Encounters provides a stunning visual record of these objects, most of which are displayed in Australia for the first time since they were collected. But,