Jonathan Jones (Artist, Historian) in conversation with Ace Bourke

The Cross Art Projects is a not-for-profit curatorial initiative founded by Jo Holder in September 2003 and run by a small group of independent curators. In late 2009 we moved to 8 Llankelly Place after working at 33 Roslyn Street in Kings Cross in tandem with The Cross Books. The old space continues as a curator run-space with changing formats every two years. (Formerly The Drawing Room now Affiliated Text).

The Cross Art Projects

As the site of invasion and ongoing resistance, Sydney has always been a contested place.

The exhibition The First, First Families: A Curator's Archive contains many of the earliest views of Sydney and representations of Aboriginal people from 1788: Australia's true ‘First, First Families’.As the site of invasion and ongoing resistance, Sydney has always been a contested place. As a curator, Ace Bourke has in several major exhibitions, explored the entwined narratives of his own colonial family history, Aboriginal history and his experiences as a curator of contemporary Aboriginal art.We invite you to join in these considerations at this new exhibition.Image: Sydney Cove / Warrane: View of the Settlement on Sydney Cove, Port Jackson 20th August, 1788. Drawn by Edward Dayes, from a sketch by John Hunter. Engraver unknown. Engraving, 200 x 250mmPublished in John Hunter, An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island. Published Oct 18, 1792 by J. Stockdale, London.

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