Alice Hinton-Bateup

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Alice Hinton-Bateup is an Australian artist and print-maker. In the 1980s she was active in ,[1] a print workshop in Mt. Druitt, Sydney, which included a number of Aboriginal artists. They produced posters that became important in the struggle for Aboriginal rights in Australia.[2]

Early life and education[]

Hinton-Bateup was born in 1950 in Western Sydney[1] and identifies as an Aboriginal woman of the Kamilaroi and Wonnarua peoples.[3] She was taken from her parents at 11 months of age (and is therefore one of The Stolen Generation) and institutionalised first at Bomaderry and then at Cootamundra in New South Wales. In 1965, at the age of 15, she was put into domestic service for white people.[4]

When she eventually had children herself, she worried that they would be taken from her, and never having experienced maternal love she kept them at arm's length. It was not until much later in life feeling that she had wasted so much time that she learned to love her children.[4]

She trained in silk and fabric screen printing at Garage Graphics and in 1983 began working for them.[1]

Hinton-Bateup participated in four print exhibitions in the 1980s[1] and in 2020 was included in the exhibition Know My Name at the National Gallery of Australia, an exhibition focused on female Australian Artists.[1]

Works[]

In the 1980s, Hinton-Bateup produced posters with very specific political messages. Some remain in the library of art posters.

In 1986, she produced Dispossessed, that included text and focuses on the forced relocation of Aboriginal people and their loss of connection to Country.[5]

That same year, she printed Peace, with images of three people above whom was a text that concludes there could be no peace without recognition of Aboriginal connection to the land.[6]

In 1988, Hinton-Bateup participated in an Aboriginal parenting seminar sponsored by a regional public tenants council as a community art project. As a result, she produced a poster at Garage Graphics about Ruth Whitbourne, another Aboriginal woman.[4]

Collections[]

Hinton-Bateup's posters are included in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra,[7] Flinders University Art Museum in Adelaide,[1] Powerhouse Museum in Sydney,[1] and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g "Alice Hinton-Bateup :: biography at :: at Design and Art Australia Online". www.daao.org.au. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Screen printed Garage Graphix posters". collection.maas.museum. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  3. ^ Hinton-Bateup, Alice Garage Graphix. "Lost heritage". Item held by National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Tribune Roundup". Tribune (Sydney, NSW : 1939 - 1991). 8 March 1989. p. 12. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  5. ^ "Artwork titled "Dispossessed"". National Museum of Australia. 1 January 1986. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  6. ^ Printmaking, Prints and. "Timeline · Explore · Australian Prints + Printmaking". www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  7. ^ "NGA collection search results". artsearch.nga.gov.au. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  8. ^ "Works by Alice Hinton-Bateup :: The Collection :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
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