Masked Histories: Turtle Shell Masks and Torres Strait Island People Product Type / Bags This book considers a range

This book considers a range of options for where the meaning of life is to be found

the changing climate

A volatile and rebellious character

It includes the work of some 30 artists of all generations — emerging

This title presents the home-grown talent shaping this new aesthetic bound by the surrounding environment

Masked Histories: Turtle Shell Masks and Torres Strait Island People Product Type / Bags This book considers a rangeMasked Histories celebrates the remarkable Torres Strait Islander turtle shell masks that were taken or traded by Europeans throughout the nineteenth century. Displayed as curiosities or art in museums and galleries around the world, the Islander knowledges they held were silenced. Delving into old stories from both Islanders and the foreigners who had travelled to the region, Lui Chivizhe reanimates the masks with their Islander meaning and purpose