
The words ‘Country’ and ‘Landscape’ are both used to express a sense of place, and have similarity of meaning as well as important differences. For Indigenous Australians, ‘country’ specifically expresses the sustaining relationship that exists between people and place, and the relating rites and custodianship. ‘Landscape’ is a more European term, and can include abstract philosophical or aesthetic interpretations of a place. In looking at this online exhibition, you might ponder the question: Whose ‘place’—Indigenous or European Australians—is it that is being shown in the image?