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The first European explorers and colonists viewed Western Australia and its spectacular coast as an ?unknown land?.
See Western Australia before it was Western Australia.
Of course, it was no such thing ? Aboriginal people had owned the land for thousands of years and were quickly in conflict with the imperialists.
Whatever their motives ? colonist, invader, explorer, settler, adventurer ? the Europeans were awestruck by the land we now call Western Australia ? and the opportunities it presented.
This exhibition of the earliest water-colours, paintings and drawings of Western Australia superbly captures images of locations still familiar, but now mostly transformed. These European artists were the first of many generations to be inspired by the landscape of Western Australia....
