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Elizabeth Durack contains original material from the 1920s on through all decades up until the year 2000. The material consists principally of artworks, manuscripts, poetry and letters. During her lifetime Durack held many successful exhibitions but resisted selling certain key works
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Durack freely assumed the right to make
Aboriginal art as Burrup. This was not appreciated by other Aboriginal artists nor the gallery owner who represented "Burrup". Durack continued to make art as Eddie Burrup until her death on 25 May 2000, aged 84. Responses from the art world and the public
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Her work was notable for the way it combined and reflected both western and aboriginal perceptions of the world. Based for much of her life in remote parts of north and central
Western Australia, far from the metropolitan centres of mainstream artistic activity, Durack received stimulus and
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Some of
Elizabeth Durack's earliest published illustrations are of aboriginal life in Western Australia, for example her illustrations for the 1935 book "All-About: The Story of a Black Community on Argyle Station, Kimberley". "Elizabeth Durack is credited with illustrating the book
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In the 1990s, artworks by indigenous artist "Eddie Burrup" began to appear on the
Aboriginal art scene. Paintings by 'Eddie Burrup' were first displayed in January 1995 in a mixed exhibition at Kimberley Fine Art—Durack Gallery,
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exhibition, stated that "as an
Aboriginal person I feel really offended." Durack was bemused by the controversy, remarking "I'm just using a nom de plume. Why are people so interested in the fact of what I've done?"
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Elizabeth Durack and dismissed Burrup paintings that previously had been acclaimed. Three works by Eddie Burrup from
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Durack, Mary & Elizabeth (1935). All-About: The Story of a Black
Community on Argyle Station, Kimberley. Perth: Imperial Printing Company.
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a sale of miscellaneous printed and original material, presented by Robert Muir Old and Rare Books, Perth, July 2006;
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150:(1913–1994). The sisters were educated at the Loreto Convent in Perth, and also on the Kimberley cattle stations,
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In recognition of services to art and literature, Elizabeth Durack was appointed an Officer of the
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August 1946 saw her first exhibition in Perth. In 1951 she had a joint exhibition with the potter
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presented by Forty7ED at the Lingiari Foundation Centre, Broome Western Australia, July 2007.
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by JK Ewers, released in 1956. Illustrations were provided by Durack for a new edition of
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region. In 1936–37 the sisters travelled to Europe where Elizabeth studied at the
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inspiration from sources quite different from those of her contemporaries, e.g.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV News archives, 8 March 1997.
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an auction presented by McKenzies Auctioneers, Perth, May 2006;
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Australian Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
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Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire
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Bolton, G. C. "Durack, Michael Patrick (1865–1950)".
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Durack dyeline prints, National Museum of Australia
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