Marella: The Hidden Mission
COWRA Regional Art Gallery is to host a thought-provoking and uplifting touring exhibition Marella: The Hidden Mission from 6 February – 7 March 2010. The exhibition tells the story through photographs, newsletters, and oral history of Marella Aboriginal Mission Farm, in Kellyville NSW during the 1940s – 1980s.
Just as the social history material in Marella: The Hidden Mission reveals a rare telling of a very precious and personal history, the accompanying artworks by some of Australia’s most important Aboriginal contemporary artists share unique insights into the realities of the removed generations and mission life.
Marella: The Hidden Mission, for the first time presents a comprehensive examination and representation of Aboriginal mission life in New South Wales. Featured in this powerful and rich exhibition are works such as the late Robert Campbell Jr’s 1987 painting Please Welfare Don’t Take My Kids which powerfully records the agonising moment of removal. Other artists include Harry J. Wedge from Cowra and Nyree (Ngari) Reynolds from Blaney as well as Badger Bates, Margaret Adams, George See, Jake Soewardie, Lola Forester, Roy Kennedy, Emelda Davis, Elaine Russel, Vincent Serico, Jim Stanley and Richard Bell.
Marella: The Hidden Mission will be opened by Keith Munro Curator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Programs, Museum of Contemporary Art, at 2pm on Saturday 6 February 2010. Zona Wilkinson exhibition Co- Curator will also present a floor talk after the opening. Admission is free and light refreshments will be served.
The exhibition is a Penrith Regional Gallery and Lewers Bequest touring exhibition.
For further information contact the Gallery on 63402190 | 
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