The Lumen Seed

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Records of a Search in the Australian Desert

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The Lumen Seed sensitively explores a cultural dialogue set against the history of Australia's indigenous peoples and the ongoing impacts of colonisation. Artist Judith Crispin, working closely with the Warlpiri community, documents their efforts to share sacred knowledge with white Australians. Through evocative images and poetry, the book reflects Crispin's personal relationships with community elders and her interpretation of their stories.
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Ideal for readers interested in indigenous cultures, Australian history, contemporary art, and poetry that bridges personal and cultural narratives.

The Lumen Seed contains photographs, drawings and poems about the indigenous Warlpiri people of Australia's Northern Tanami Desert.

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The Lumen Seed sensitively depicts a cultural dialogue taking place before a backdrop of offences against the Australian continent, as well as a history of systematic discrimination against Indigenous peoples on the part of the country's white population. The images, created by Australia-based artist Judith Crispin in close consultation with Indigenous people, document an attempt by the Warlpiri group to share sacred information with white people; the poems convey the artist's interpretation of those ideas, alongside her development of personal relationships with community elders.

Judith Crispin returned to Australia in 2011 after living and working in Germany for several years. Since that time, she has driven the 8000 km round trip from her home in Canberra to the remote community of Lajamanu many times and established a close relationship with the Warlpiri community there. Crispin has a background in music composition, poetry, and photography.

Juno Gemes is one of Australia's most celebrated contemporary photographers. In words and images, she has spent 40 years documenting the changing social landscape of Australia, and in particular, the lives and struggles of Aboriginal Australians.

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“For Judith Crispin, the discovery of Aboriginal Australia is a revelation, and a love story.” – F-Stop Magazine

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781942084242

Publisher: Daylight Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 16 March 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Daylight Books

Illustration: 30 color photographs

Contributors:

By Judith Crispin
Foreword by Juno Gemes

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 481g

Pages: 80

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Arts & Culture Australian & Pacific History Education & Reference History & Archaeology History & Military New Zealand and Australia Published Non-Fiction

About the Author

Judith Crispin returned to Australia in 2011 after living and working in Germany for several years. Since that time she has driven the 8000km round trip from her home in Canberra to the remote community of Lajamanu many times and established a close relationship with the Warlpiri community there. She has a background in music composition, poetry and photography.

Juno Gemes is one of Australia's most celebrated contemporary photographers. In words and images she has spent 40 years documenting the changing social landscape of Australia, and in particular the lives and struggles of Aboriginal Australians, a process that culminated in her being one of the ten photographers invited to document the National Apology in Canberra in 2008. She studied at Sydney University, worked in theatre and wrote for the International Times in London on and off until 1971, when she became involved in the Yellow House at Potts Point, Sydney and worked in central Australia on the film Uluru (1978). She held her first solo exhibition, We Wait No More, in 1982; the same year she exhibited photographs in the group shows After the Tent Embassy and Apmira - Artists for Aboriginal Land Rights. In 2003 the National Portrait Gallery exhibited her portraits of Indigenous activists and personalities, Proof: Portraits from the Movement 1978-2003. The NPG has since acquired many of her photographs.