Episode number 8 of Series “Under southern skies”.
Host Sue Henckel rekindles her passion for wildflowers while touring through two parks. She also visits artist and philosopher William Ricketts whose sculptures in the 1930’s expressed his understanding of his First Nation peoples subjects relationship to their environments. She also meets the descendants of the artist’s subjects who as commercial artists in the 90’s continue to express their relationship to the landscape and plant life.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
302629
Language
English
Audience classification
G
Subject categories
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Natural history
Crafts & Visual Arts → Aboriginal Australian artists
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)