Fiona McMonagle
So Fine Contemporary Women Artists make Australian history
National Portrait GalleryFiona McMonagle
July 2018
Fiona McMonagle
Contributing artists /
Born: 1977, Letterkenny, Ireland Works: Melbourne
So Fine exhibition showing from Friday 29 June until Monday 1 October 2018 at the National Portrait Gallery. The exhibition features new works from ten women artists reinterpreting and reimaging elements of Australian history.
Artist statement
Under Britain's child migrant scheme - operating from the 1920s through to the late 1960s - over 130,000 children were forcibly sent to ‘a better life' in former colonies, mainly Australia and Canada. Many were children of single mothers who had been forced to give them up for adoption, or had left them temporarily in British orphanages until they were fit to reclaim them.
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