2020 Creative Arts Fellowship Presentation: Tracking Charlotte

“For generations my family wanted to conceal their Aboriginal roots. Our darker complexions, I was told, harkened back to Spanish sailor shipwrecked near Scotland, or invading Moors…The lie was only a few generations back, but it took me almost twenty years to uncover”.

Judith Crispin, the 2020 honorary National Library Creative Arts Fellow for Australian Writing, shares her journey to uncover the truth about her ancestry and the Hidden Generations. Join us as Judith reveal show she came to write an imaginary biography in honour of her Grandfather’s Grandmother, Charlotte, informed only by entries in a ledger, a single photo, and the drawings of Charlotte’s countryman, artist Tommy McRae