John Cheeseman: Bungaree's Farm - Mosman Art Gallery

Bungaree's Farm was conceived as a cross artform program for the development of contemporary Aboriginal art practices consisting of research, residencies, workshops and exhibitions.

The program worked on evolving new models for the development and presentation of contemporary Aboriginal arts. Bungaree's Farm developed into an exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal audio, video, performance and installation art exploring Bungaree’s legacy and commemorating the establishment of 'Bungaree’s Farm' by Governor Macquarie at Mosman on 31 January 1815. Bungaree's Farm represented the first program to appropriately acknowledge the importance of Bungaree and examine his life and story from an indigenous and contemporary visual arts perspective. This exhibition has provided the opportunity for this unique figure in Australian history to be critically reinterpreted by Aboriginal artists and brought to public awareness.