When you come and see this stock route exhibition, we’d like to give you a chance to just listen, and come and see – that’s all. Just listen to the stories, hear the songs. See how the country is, because it’s not empty. There’s a lot of Jukurrpa, a lot of water out here, a lot of animals, a lot of bush tucker. It’s not just empty. Jukurrpa is stories, knowledge, songs, dance, lifestyle, culture. That’s what Jukurrpa is. I’m talkin about the world. – Curtis Taylor, 2010

Exhibition Launch, Canberra

Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route Project exhibition launched at the National Museum of Australia in July 2010. Fifty four artists, five arts centre managers, twelve volunteers and nine project team travelled from remote communities for the opening. Over the days following the exhibition launch the artists and project team shared stories of Country, history, culture in a public program of talks, films and performances. The exhibition ran until January 2011 and attracted over 122,000 visitors – the largest record of attendance to any exhibition in the Museum’s history.