Context (Display)
Exhibited from 2010-2012 in the tall narrow Australia/Tasmanian case in the Maudslay Gallery.
Event Date
Author: rachel hand

Context (Acquisition Details)
Gordon Bennet, 2006. Purchased in December 2008 from John Citizen Arts Pty Ltd (trustee for the Bennett Family Trust).
Event Date 18/12/2008
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Digital print entitled ‘High Moral Ground’, with a naked pink anthropomorphic figure in the foreground, standing on a hill. The background consists of buildings and a blue sky with clouds. The bottom part which is covered in black grid-lines has the following writing: (a) True blue (b) Stockman brand (c) Ringer (d) Drover (e) Swagmand (f) Rinkum Digger (g) Bobby Dazzler
Event Date 18/12/2008
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Exhibited: Initially displayed as part of the Expiation of Guilt exhibition May 2007- February 2008, which formed part of the Bicentennial celebrations of the 1807 Act, which abolished the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Display label noted 'High Moral Ground. Gordon Bennett, 2006. Digital Print on Archival Paper. Contemporary Australian artist Gordon Bennet [sic] explores the global resonances of Indigenous Australian experience. Purchased from the John Citizen Arts Pty Ltd, 2009.16 [wrong accession no. sic]'.
Additional information from the 2006-2007 Annual Report: "Curated by Professor Thomas with the assistance of Dr Elliott, the Museum's contribution to the commemoration of the bicentenary of the 1807 act to abolish the slave trade was an exhibition by Australian artist Gordon Bennett, whose provocative and controversial work engages with issues of race, colonialism and violence. The exhibition, consisting of a series of interventions in the form of paintings, prints and video work in the Maudslay Hall. [...] The exhibition opened on 1 May 2007 and runs until February 2008."
Event Date 24/6/2013
Author: Remke van der Velden