Gordon Syron’s paintings feature in a new exhibition ‘Ship and Shore’ which is on now outside the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour Sydney.
This exhibition on display in the Wharf 7 forecourt, examines Cook’s voyage and its legacy, incorporating perspectives both of those aboard the Endeavour and the Indigenous inhabitants watching it from the shore.
It was a pivotal moment when two cultures – neither able to communicate or comprehend the other’s world, collided with near fatal consequences for the Indigenous custodians of the land, and their culture – a culture which we now know stretches back at least 60,000 years.
