We can’t know this woman or her story simply by looking at a photograph of her – the story isn’t made apparent in other[wize]. We must interrogate this picture and try to make some sense of it by reaching into what we might know about the history of this country. Fraser, having heard the stories of her extended family, explains that her Granny Clark was a midwife who bore 15 children of her own – “She smoked a pipe…She had a lot of “useful” skills, like sewing because she grew up on Tamrookum Station. She worked on stations for her whole life and helped a lot of people cause she was a midwife. She delivered Aboriginal babies and other babies as well.” The know-how of Aboriginal people in these remote situations kept those stations in operation and kept those white settlers alive. Having moved around from station to station, Fraser’s Granny Clark also never lost sight of her homeland or the fact that she was Yugambeh.
The artist other[wize] 2005-6