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One was based around inter-racial…marriage and relationships, and, during the course of kind of looking at that and doing research about that…I discovered that, in fact, you couldn’t really find…well, I couldn’t really find any kind of commercial images of Aboriginal women in wedding dresses. So what we did is…she made the objects…I used them in the shoots that I did, and then, within the gallery space, both were exhibited, my images and her objects. I went away and came up with a number of ideas for images, and then I came back and…spoke with Jirra and Lorraine about those again, and then Lorraine went and made sculptural objects that could then be a part of those images as well.
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We looked at it…at women’s suffrage through Aboriginal eyes and what that meant to Indigenous women and how it affected them. Further InformationīINDI COLE: Artist Jirra Lulla Harvey invited myself and another artist called Lorraine Connelly-Northey to create a body of work. Bindi Cole discusses the works she created for the Victorian College of the Arts exhibition "A Place Like This", one of 50 projects funded by the Office of Women's Policy as part of the Centenary celebrations for the vote for Women in Victoria.