Lizard Island
Allen & Unwin (Verlag)
978-1-86508-473-2 (ISBN)
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Mary Watson was 21 years old and had been married less than 18 months when she died of thirst on No. 5 Island in the Howick Group off Cape Flattery in Far North Queensland in 1881. She, along with her four-month-old baby and a wounded Chinese workman, Ah Sam, had voyaged for eight days and some 40 miles in a cut-down ship's water tank, used for boiling sea slugs, after mainland Aborigines had attacked two Chinese workmen at her absent husband's beche-de-mer station on Lizard Island. It was assumed that she had been kidnapped and killed, and when the bodies were found some months later, they were returned for a funeral which became Cooktown's biggest public event, uniting the town in appreciation of her undaunted spirit. Mary Watson, whose short diary describing their last days was found with the remains, became an emblem of pioneer heroism for many Queenslanders. This story has since been retold in numerous accounts, many fanciful, and usually with little attention given to the Aboriginal and Chinese aspects of events.
Alan Oldfield's paintings are his own interpretation of the meaning of Mary Watson's life, using the story as a spiritual metaphor, and also in a gesture of reconciliation of past misunderstandings. Suzanne Falkiner's essays which accompany them are intended to provide both a historically accurate account and an interpretation of the factors which made the story emblematic of some of the deeper currents in Australia's history.
Alan Oldfield is a prominent Sydney painter and teacher. He has won numerous art prizes including the prestigious Sulman Prize and has twice won the Blake Prize for religious art. From mid-1988 he was Artist-in-Residence for a year at Linacre College, The University of Oxford. In 1999 he held the same appointment at the Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Cairns. He has held twenty-three solo exhibitions and is represented in the National Gallery of Australia and most state, regional and university collections, as well as in college collections at Oxford and Cambridge. Writer and editor Suzanne Falkiner has published nine works of fiction, non-fiction and biography. She has also run a small independent book publishing company, and continues to be a freelance journalist, travel writer and book reviewer. She lives in Sydney.
List of PaintingsMap of Cape YorkAcknowledgmentsMap of Lizard IslandPrologue: Lizard Island, July 19991 An ancient presence2 Ghosts from the sea3 Cook's Town4 From the flowery land5 St Newlyn East6 On Lizard Island7 'Complete evidence of murder'8 The journey9 The iron tank10 By the wind-blown sandAfterwordsThe Story of Mrs Watson, 1991Paintings by Alan OldfieldAlan Oldfield and the Mrs Watson PaintingsNotesBibliographyIndex
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.3.2001 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Sydney |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 225 x 284 mm |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Bildbände ► Australien / Neuseeland / Ozeanien |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-86508-473-5 / 1865084735 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-86508-473-2 / 9781865084732 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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