Harry J Wedge: 'WORKS BY' 19 June - 13 July 1997

"HJ Wedge of the Wiradjuri nation, was born on Erambie Mission, Cowra in NSW. An interest in photography and a chance meeting with a cousin who was studying photography at TAFE Eora Centre, Redfern, led HJ to Sydney and his subsequent enrolment at the Eora Centre in 1989. The course led HJ from photography to painting, and he discovered a medium conducive to his communicative needs... Aboriginal issues and HJ's forceful messages are released through dream images and stories from deep within his Aboriginal spirituality," (extracts from a Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative biography of HJ Wedge). The works and texts powerfully articulate the various forces and influences brought to bear on the individuals and peoples of Aboriginal Australia.