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A Story To Tell
In A Story To Tell, Laurel Nannup beautifully illustrated memories and stories of her childhood. The prints traversed Laurel’s journey from living in the bush in Pinjarra with her large Aboriginal family to being taken away at 8 years of age to live at the Wandering Mission where she spent the following eight years. “As…
Escape – Fremantle to Freedom
The exhibition, Escape! Fremantle to Freedom, was based on the dramatic escape of six Irish Fenian prisoners from the Convict Establishment (Fremantle Prison) in 1876. A Fenian was a member of an association of Irishmen (the Fenian Brotherhood) founded in the late 1850s with the aim of overthrowing the British Government in Ireland. The name…