Aboriginal people used art to record their experiences, ceremonies ... It challenges the limits and assumptions of traditional, academic ways of understanding and knowing the past by showing how ...

Frances Belle Parker said. She came to prominence by winning the prestigious Blake Prize in 2000, making her the youngest ever winner and the first Aboriginal recipient in the prize’s history.

Australia's most prestigious award for portraiture has been won by an Aboriginal artist for the first time in its 99-year history ... moment in Australian art." His entry, titled Stand Strong ...