Jim Everett b. 1942

Also known as pura-lia meenamatta
  • Artist
Activist, poet and playwright, Everett is a member of the Ben Lomond tribe of Tasmania who in 2006 collaborated with artist Jonathan Kimberley to produce textual paintings that address the nature of Indigenous-non-Indigenous relations in Tasmania.

Citations

  • Everett, Jim, ''This is Manalargenna country: Clan country of a first nation’ in Amanda Reynolds (ed) Keeping Culture: Aboriginal Tasmania’, National Museum of Australia Press, Canberra, ACT.

  • (2006), 'meenamatta lena narla puellakanny: Meenamatta Water Country Discussion – Catalogue’, Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tas.

Initial data sources

  • Storylines Project, COFA, UNSW