Bella Kelly
09/07/2019
An important aim of our project has been to connect people today with ‘content’ relating to family members who were at Carrolup all those years ago. This content may take the form of photographs, the children’s drawings and letters, or documents from various sources. Last week, I posted […]
02/04/2019
One of the great pleasures I’ve had since starting this project several years ago is meeting Tony Davis from Albany. In 2016, I was working very closely with my close friend Michael Liu on a Revel Cooper project. Revel was one of the Carrolup child artists and it […]
30/11/2018
Good morning. Today, John and I head back to Perth this morning after a very enjoyable week staying with Tony Davis in Albany. We’ll drop into The Kodja Place in Kojunup to meet John Benn, who as a youngster was taken to Carrolup by his mother, a local teacher. […]
29/11/2018
On Monday, John and I travelled down to Albany to stay with my good friend Tony Davis. We stopped at The Woolshed in Williams, where John ate a tasty savoury muffin and I gorged on a lamb and rosemary pie. John reflected on how he had stopped at […]
25/11/2018
![Leaning tree by Milton Jackson, pastel on paper, 41 x 33cm, c.1949. Noel & Lily White Collection, Berndt Museum of Anthropology. [WU7568]](https://www.carrolup.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_6158-1-960x720.jpg)
I’ve just got back from a couple of days chilling out in the bush, with no internet or phone. It was very restful. It has been 15 days since we officially launched The Carrolup Story website, so I thought I’d write a little about the launch. We decided […]