Mackay-based artist delves into history and tales of local Italian community

By Lucia Moon
Community contribution / 4 years, 11 months ago

Award-winning multimedia artist Donna Maree Robinson collaborated with the Mackay and District Italian Association Inc. to connect with the local Italian and Maltese communities and create a video work exploring themes of historical migration, hard work and love.

A famously hard-working cane-cutter from Malta, loading cane onto a truck in Mackay. (Photo supplied)

For some time, the Mackay and District Italian Association Inc. had been asking Robinson to collaborate with them on a ...

By Lucia Moon

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Most of the stories that I found were based on love and creating families, caring for the families they already had, or making a better life for them in a better country, based on economic reasons.

— Donna Maree Robinson

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Mackay-based artist delves into history and tales of local Italian community

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