The Stolen Generations survivors using art to reclaim history

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Kinchela Coolamon artists.jpg — Uncle Richard Campbell and Uncle Roger Jarrett, both former residents of Kinchela Boys Home, are showing artworks in a new Coolamon Arts Hub exhibition Credit: SBS

It’s a medium that Uncle Richard Campbell has spent his whole life using to communicate and tell his own story. Making sense of the dark years of the government's policies of forcible removal of First Nations children from their families. Art was a constant - even though the administrators at the Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Home exacted punishment.

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Published 7 July 2026 6:00pm

By Biwa Kwan

Presented by Yumi Oba

Source: SBS

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It’s a medium that Uncle Richard Campbell has spent his whole life using to communicate and tell his own story. Making sense of the dark years of the government's policies of forcible removal of First Nations children from their families. Art was a constant - even though the administrators at the Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Home exacted punishment.

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