Bonita Ely
After five years overseas in London and New York, I returned to Australia in 1975. A report on the Murray River was released which detailed salination and other pollutants, motivating me to draw people’s attention to the river and its imminent degradation by ‘taking them there’—not everyone can drop everything to travel 2,108 kilometres, observing, exploring, making art.
Brought up on the Murray in the soldier settlement town of Robinvale, the river is my ‘Heartland’, so to speak. With summer temperatures in the 30s and 40s, families cooled down in the river, picnicking nearby, kids playing together until after dark.
When invited to participate
