| 5th of June 2020 |
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| SKA Shared Sky Exhibition |
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Shared Sky
brings together Aboriginal Australian and South
African artists in a collaborative exhibition.
The exhibition embodies the spirit of the
international science and engineering collaboration that is the SKA
project itself, bringing together many nations around two sites in
Australia and South Africa to study the same sky. Shared Sky connects
indigenous artists working in remote communities from either side of
the Indian Ocean that have ancient cultural connections to the two
sites where the SKA will be located. Shared Sky reflects the SKA’s One
Sky concept – that no borders exist in the sky and that the night sky
is an increasingly scarce natural resource that belongs to and is
shared by all humanity.
Last week was National Reconciliation Week in Australia, with the
theme this year of "In this together".
National Reconciliation Week (NRW) grew from events in 1993 (the International Year of the
World's Indigenous Peoples),
with the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation launching
Australia’s first NRW in 1996.
The image above is an acrylic on linen painting by Wajarri artist
Kyle Pickett, who describes it as being
when the Yallabirri (emu) appears in the sky in preparation for the laying of eggs.
(Text credit: SKAO. Image © Kyle Pickett, used with persmission)
As Monday June 8th is a Public Holiday, the next ADAP will appear on Tuesday June 9th. |