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This is a story about an artwork illustrating a Chinese camp in Ballarat, Victoria, depicted by Percy Lindsay. This is a story about a painting that carries within it the joy, tears and fears of Chinese gold miners. This oil canvas is hidden and locked away in a black suitcase at the Ballarat gallery with its paper sketch stored at the University of Melbourne. This week on Uncurated, Caitlin Duan and Isabella Vagnoni take you on a road trip to uncover the forgotten history of Percy Lindsay. And along with it, capture the story of Chinese-Australian migrants during the gold rush era all the way into the 21st century. 

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Interviewees:
Alyssa Bunbury - Curator of the Grimwade Collection at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
Juanita Kwok - History and Heritage consultant with an interest in local histories in Australia and Chinese communities in rural Australia
Charles Zhang - Committee member of the Chinese library and President of the Chinese Australian Cultural Society of Ballarat

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Music and sound effects for this episode of Uncurated were sourced from https://www.purple-planet.com and https://www.FesliyanStudios.com under relevant licensing agreements. 

This is a story about an artwork illustrating a Chinese camp in Ballarat, Victoria, depicted by Percy Lindsay. This is a story about a painting that carries within it the joy, tears and fears of Chinese gold miners. This oil canvas is hidden and locked away in a black suitcase at the Ballarat gallery with its paper sketch stored at the University of Melbourne. This week on Uncurated, Caitlin Duan and Isabella Vagnoni take you on a road trip to uncover the forgotten history of Percy Lindsay. And along with it, capture the story of Chinese-Australian migrants during the gold rush era all the way into the 21st century. 
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Interviewees:
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<li aria-level="1">Alyssa Bunbury - Curator of the Grimwade Collection at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne</li>
<li aria-level="1">Juanita Kwok - History and Heritage consultant with an interest in local histories in Australia and Chinese communities in rural Australia</li>
<li aria-level="1">Charles Zhang - Committee member of the Chinese library and President of the Chinese Australian Cultural Society of Ballarat</li>
</ul>
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Music and sound effects for this episode of Uncurated were sourced from <a href="https://www.purple-planet.com/">https://www.purple-planet.com</a> and <a href="https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/">https://www.FesliyanStudios.com</a> under relevant licensing agreements.

An oil painting lost in a storeroom for decades, a dusty student card, a misplaced animal skull; these are some of the objects in the University of Melbourne's twelve museums. Each was forgotten in a different way. Join students from the Centre for Advancing Journalism on a journey of unforgetting as they ask why some objects - or people - are lost from history. And what that says about Australia. 

An oil painting lost in a storeroom for decades, a dusty student card, a misplaced animal skull; these are some of the objects in the University of Melbourne's twelve museums. Each was forgotten in a different way. Join students from the Centre for Advancing Journalism on a journey of unforgetting as they ask why some objects - or people - are lost from history. And what that says about Australia.

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