Elizabeth Durack exhibition launch event
Channel: ANU Library
Date: 23/05/2017

This is a video presentation of speakers presenting at the launch of a new ANU Library exhibition. An audio-only version is available at http://library-admin.anu.edu.au/collections/elizabeth-durack-collection/launch/audio.mp3 (MP3 76MB).

Elizabeth Durack (later Durack Clancy), eminent Australian artist, was invited by the Australian Federal Minister for Territories and Minister for External Territories to travel to Papua New Guinea to record images of women as the nation progressed towards independence. She created insightful drawings and photographs together with observations of women, children and the environment within which these major changes were occurring.

The collection of 410 works, 233 of which have never been available to researchers before, has been acquired from Michael Clancy and Perpetua Durack Clancy, trustees of the estate of Elizabeth Durack. 

ANU Library brings this collection to the world through an exhibition in the R G Menzies Library. All items in this collection have been digitised and made accessible at http://library-admin.anu.edu.au/collections/elizabeth-durack-collection, along with an interactive map of Durack’s expedition and seven research essays on the social, economic and political environment at the time.