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65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art
ISBN: 9781760764210

A landmark publication on the history of Indigenous Australian art – this courageous and comprehensive exploration calls us to bear witness to sixty-five thousand years of continuous culture, Indigenous knowledge and powerful art.

Edited by Professor Marcia Langton AO and Ms Judith Ryan AM, this book is published by Thames and Hudson in association with a major exhibition at the University of Melbourne’s revitalised Potter Museum of Art, opening in 2025. Also titled 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art, the exhibition features over 400 artworks that celebrate the longevity and brilliance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art despite a difficult history of colonialism and scientific racism.

Professor Marcia Langton AO, anthropologist, geographer, academic and public intellectual, is a descendant of the Yiman and Bidjara nations of Queensland. Since 2000 she has been Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, where she is Associate Provost.

Ms Judith Ryan AM, an art historian, is Senior Curator, Art Museums at the University of Melbourne and was previously Senior Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Victoria where she played a key role in the development and scholarly interpretation of a nationally important public collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art.