Julie Freeman

  • Artist (Installation Artist)
Freeman's 1997 installation 'Forget Me Nots' was a cemetery plot made from the gates of the infamous Bomaderry Girls Home, hung with a wreath of pink and blue forget-me-nots. A photo behind the gates of a class and teacher (c.1930s) replaced the headstone.
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installation artist, works in New South Wales. Her 1997 installations, Forget Me Nots , a cemetery plot made from the gates of the infamous Bomaderry Girls Home hung with a wreath of pink and blue forget-me-nots with photo behind of c.1930s class and teacher instead of headstone, and Reconciliation (like a Bonsai tree of beans), were shown in 'What is Aboriginal Art’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, 1997, and in a south coast Aboriginal art show (exhibition title unknown) at Wollongong Art Gallery, 1997.

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1999
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2011

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References [<ExternalResource: Johnson, Vivien (1998), 'The festival of the dreaming', Art & Australia (supplement) 35/3, p. 7, Features illustrations of 'Forget Me Nots' and 'Reconciliation'.>, <ExternalResource: (1997), Wollongong Art Gallery catalogue.>] [<ExternalResource: Johnson, Vivien (1998), 'The festival of the dreaming', Art & Australia (supplement) 35/3, p. 7, Features illustrations of 'Forget Me Nots' and 'Reconciliation'.>]