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TAKE A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY

East Coast Encounter is a multi-arts exhibition that featured at the Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery from 28 April to 17 June.

The exhibition was an initiative involving Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, writers and songwriters to re-imagine the encounter by Lt James Cook and his crew with Aboriginal people in 1770. It sought to promote cultural dialogue and reconciliatory understanding between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

Cook’s voyage along the Australian east coast has become central to national historical narratives. The exhibition of paintings, photographs, videos and three dimensional works re-envisages this seminal journey by imaginatively