Friends of the University of Adelaide Library

Philip Jones: Ochre and Rust

The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library invite you to a free public talk with Philip Jones on Thursday 2 October 2008 at 6.00 for 6.30pm

Venue: Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide

Philip Jones will speak about how his award-winning book Ochre and Rust developed, and how he approached the material. He will take as a specific focus the way in which a Waramanga man of the Tennant Creek area, Dick Cubage, found himself in Adelaide as a guest of the Lindsay family and Sir Samuel Way during the late 1880s.

Ochre and Rust has been short-listed for the NSW and Queensland Premiers' literary awards, and recently won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction and the Melbourne University Press Publishing Award.

Philip Jones is a Senior Curator, Department of Anthropology, South Australian Museum, a graduate of the History Department of the University of Adelaide, and is a Senior Visiting Fellow in the University's Art History program. His doctoral thesis, A box of native things: ethnographic collectors and the South Australian Museum, 1830s-1930s, University of Adelaide, 1996, concerns Aboriginal ethnographic collecting in Australia. It deals with the history of anthropology and collections made on the frontiers of Aboriginal/European contact. The research underpinning this thesis provoked the narratives and ideas which became the main stories in Ochre and Rust.

Bookings by Tuesday 30 September to:
Email: robina.weir@adelaide.edu.au
Telephone: 8303 4064

Admission is free and open to the public: gold coin donation invited.

Seating is limited.

Paul Wilkins
Deputy University Librarian
Barr Smith Library

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