About Roses from the Heart Tour dates
Is the first Memorial to all women sentenced to transportation as convicts to Australia (1788-1853). 25,566 cloth bonnets (taken from an 1860s servants bonnet) symbolises the women whose lives have been shrouded by a veil of amnesia for far too long.
Is the first Memorial to all women sentenced to transportation as convicts to Australia (1788-1853). 25,566 cloth bonnets (taken from an 1860s servants bonnet) symbolises the women whose lives have been shrouded by a veil of amnesia for far too long.
‘Sea of Bonnets’ exhibition November 2011.
Photographs by Robert Boldkald
Artist Christina Henri
Christina uses boats as metaphors for the expansion of colonialisation and bonnets to represent the convict women. Thousands of bonnets were involved in this installation. Bonnets were made by participants world wide who are part of Roses from the Heart(R) Christina Henri’s Memorial to all 25,566 convict women transported to Australia.
