Traces the legacy of the child artists incarcerated at the Carrolup Native Settlement in the 1940s and 1950s, narrated by many first person accounts about the (re) discovery of their work and the consequences of the Stolen Generations.The book traces the legacy of the child artists of the Stolen Generations incarcerated at the Carrolup Native Settlement in the 1940s and 1950s. Many coincidences were responsible for bringing the new generation of Carrolup art work to broader audiences, especially the (re)discovery of the lost body of Carrolup art work in the United States in 2005.What might have remained a regional story has in past years become the locus of an international conversation, not only about the prodigious work of the children but also about colonialism, cultural genocide, repatriation and the protection of children’s intellectual property.The conditions under which the artwork was made and its international response, invite a reexamination of how the production of hybrid forms of representation became both resistance and adaptation to colonisation under totalising conditions. The author examines the children and their descendants within the politics, the art world, the economy and the culture of Australia, past and present, and how they and their artwork were ontologically conceived in a coloinialist country.
