Mervyn Bishop (born 1945)

PRIME MINISTER GOUGH WHITLAM POURS SOIL INTO THE HANDS OF TRADITIONAL LANDOWNER VINCENT LINGIARI, NORTHERN TERRITORY, 1975

type C photograph

49.0 x 39.0 cm (image)
66.0 x 56.0 cm (frame)

Stills Gallery, Sydney
Corrigan Collection, Sydney
on long-term loan to the University of Technology, Sydney, October 2004 – October 2006; June 2013 – November 2020

Australian Postwar Photodocumentary, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 June – 8 August 2004 (another example)
Half Light Portraits from Black Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 November 2008 – 22 February 2009 (another example)
Home: Aboriginal Art from NSW, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 9 June – 2 December 2012 (another example)
The Photograph and Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 March – 8 June 2015; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 4 July – 11 October 2015 (another example)
Over the Fence: Contemporary Indigenous Photography from the Corrigan Collection, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, 6 August – 30 October 2016

Annear, J., The Photograph and Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2015, pp. 6 (illus. another example), 50, 292
Craig, G., and Presley, R., Over the Fence: Contemporary Indigenous Photography from the Corrigan Collection, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, 2016, pp. 83 (illus.), 90

Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, the National Library of Australia, Canberra and the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney