Contents: Crossing the Strait / Kathryn Wells -- 'wading in water' / Sue Blanchfield and Dorothy Murray -- 'a billy and buckets to collect shells' / Esma Timbery Russell and Julie Freeman -- 'a bull kelp carrier glows a translucent red' / Sue Blanchfield -- 'making baskets and learning weaving' / Kathryn Wells -- 'knocking them out of the sky' / Laddie Timbery and Julie Freeman -- 'some old people taught me' / Brendan Brown -- 'an unimaginable palette' / Kathryn Wells -- artists' biographies -- exhibition list of works.

"Catalogue from the exhibition Crossing the strait: Tasmania to the South Coast held at Wollongong City Gallery in February 1999. ... The exhibition was curated by Kathryn Wells" -- t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Exhibition catalogue; Introductory essay 'crossing the Strait' explains that the exhibition was a contribution to a conference on post-colonialism; features art from New South Wales South Coast and Tasmania; artists write about their works.