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Eveleigh shed 2007 - 2010

Selling off a blackfella's dream
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    2007 - 2010  

The Redfern Waterloo Authority hosted the Keeping Place from October 2007 until November 2010. The collection was packed up and placed into storage, and in 2011 was made available to purchase.

     
   
    2011  

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Big news in Germany.
National Geographic by Karolin Seinsche, at the end

     
   
    A keeping place  


An Aboriginal Keeping Place

 

…celebrating our survival…

 

….growing our culture…

 

…protecting our heritage…

 

…keeping our community strong…

 

 

The Vision…

 

To create a National Aboriginal Keeping Place and Cultural Centre in Sydney that celebrates our survival, provides a space for the contemporary expression of our contemporary culture, protects our heritage and keeps our community strong.

 

Our plan to form The Keeping Place and Cultural Centre is to find a benefactor who will purchase the Black Fella's Dreaming Museum's collection from Gordon and Elaine Syron and use it to found the Keeping Place and Cultural Centre for the absolute benefit of the Aboriginal commmunities. The benefactor will not sub-divide the collection for any purpose and will guarantee that all artworks currently belonging to the Museum will be included in the founding collection of the Keeping Place. Artworks by Gordon Syron and photographs by Elaine Pelot-Syron will be loaned to and preserved by The Keeping Place and Cultural Centre.

 

The heart and starting point for the Keeping Place and Cultural Centre is the Gordon and Elaine Syron Black Fella's Dreaming Museum. It is an important collection that contains many of Australia’s leading contemporary and urban Aboriginal artists such as:

 

Bronwyn Bancroft, Gordon Hookey, Christine Christopherson (Kakadu mining), Michael Riley, Adam Hill, Gordon Syron, Danny Eastwood, Darren Cooper, Merv Bishop, Karen Casey, Carmel Nicholson, Euphemia Bostock, Daphne Wallace, Roy Kennedy, Jeffrey Samuels, Karla Dickens, James P. Simon, Laddie Timbrey, David Janganlinji, Shane “Yondee” Hanson, Tim Ives, Bev Coe and Michelle Blakeney.

 

Some other important traditional pieces are: two large bark paintings by Robin Nganjmirra, eight (early) controversial Clifford Possums, four early Gabriella Possums, 66 body paintings by Emily Kngwarreye and her family, Mary Dixon, Gordon Pupugamirri, Kamahi Djordon King, Djawida Nadjongorle, Abraham Dakgalawuy, Lindsay Bird Petyarre, David Cameron, Joshua Bangarr, Chris Ngaboy, Yarramunua, Vivianne Gilbert Muiya, Billy Petyarre, an early Michael Jagamara Nelson, an early Lily Sandover, Dorothy Smith and 40 “Bunda” paintings from the Northern Territory and hundreds more.

 

A catalogue of the all of the artworks in the Syron's collection will soon be released to the public.

 

The collection also includes unseen and never-published photographs taken by Elaine (Kitchener) Pelot-Syron that document events, portraits and Sydney's history over the last thirty five years. 

 

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Unpublished photo by Elaine Syron 1980s

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