The Keeping Place Collection

499 Wilson Street
Darlington 2008
(street behind Redfern train station)
Phone: 83990988
Mobile: 0451 166 739

Press Release

Contact: Eric NAIR
Publicity & PR
Phone: 0451 166 739
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
9.00am Tuesday the 17th August 2010


Hon. Michael Kirby to join search for new home for Redfern’s Keeping Place

Former High Court Judge, Hon. Michael Kirby has announced that he will be joining former Australian National Museum Director, Craddock Morton as a patron of the Keeping Place. 

The Keeping Place collection is a remarkable assemblage of contemporary and traditional Aboriginal art, artefacts, books, photographs and other memorabilia which must be saved for futuregenerations.  It is currently exhibited in a Redfern Warehouse but is shortly to be relocated from the site and at present has no alternative venue available.  The first priority for the collection’s two high profile patrons will be to find it a new home where it can be properly displayed and interpreted.

Hon. Michael Kirby said of the Keeping Place “It is an urgent and serious problem, and I hope that a proper solution can be found. Wherever it is placed, it ought to be placed with honour and properly safeguarded as an indication of the beauty of Indigenous art in Australia”.

Hon. Michael Kirby’s patronage will be a great addition to the search, began by the Keeping Place’s current custodian, renowned Aboriginal artist Gordon Syron.  Hon. Michael Kirby and Mr. Morton will be assisting Gordon Syron to find corporate, government or private benefactors to purchase the collection as a whole and place it on exhibition in a new permanent home.

“It is hoped that the collection will be able to be used as the basis for a larger assemblage of Aboriginal artworks, stories and histories which will serve as an invaluable cultural and educational resource for Australia and the world”.

“It will also provide employment opportunities for Aboriginal people and give emerging Aboriginal artists an iconic place to aspire to being exhibited in”. 

-Spokesperson & Chairman of Steering Committee
Greens City of Sydney Councillor Irene Doutney

The Keeping Place is open for inspection, interview, or photography by appointment with Elaine & Gordon Syron

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The Keeping Place Collection 499 Wilson St Darlington, corner of Shepherd & Wilson St (Near Sydney University).

Phone: 83990988
Mobile: 0451 166 739
 


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