Rowley's Line

Name/Title

Rowley's Line

Entry/Object ID

MMP.11

Description

Aquatint

Collection

C.N. Gorman Museum, UC Davis

Made/Created

Artist

Raymond Zada

Date made

2015

Dimensions

Height

28-1/2 in

Width

23-1/2 in

Depth

1-1/2 in

Dimension Notes

Framed

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Artist Commentary

Label

Raymond Zada Barkindji/Paakintji, b. 1971 Rowley’s Line, 2015 Aquatint Collection of the C.N. Gorman Museum, UC Davis. Membership Fund Acquisition. “The ‘Rowley Line’ is an imagined line drawn across Australia where those Aboriginal people living above it are viewed as more ‘authentic’ than those living below it. This imagined line has provided successive governments the opportunity to prescribe opinions and policies upon those living above the line that they would never prescribe to those below.” – Raymond Zada