The Wiradjuri people of New South West lost another cultural warrior recently: the artist Harry Wedge, who was also a nephew of activist Isobel Coe.
Harry painted his experiences of life at Erambie mission in Cowra.
Bright colours, childlike characters, wild hair and wide ranging scenes full of activity dominate his paintings, as he often tackled hard issues in the stories he illustrated.
The Macleay Museum at the University of Sydney holds the oldest natural history collection in Australia. Curator Matt Poll says Wedge produced probably about 350 paintings since 1991.
Harry studied photography and then painting at Eora TAFE college in Sydney. He was part of a movement of contemporay artists who painted about their experiences growing up on missions - including Ian Abdulla and Elaine Russell who were all part of the Sydney art collective, Boomalli.
"Wedge was part of that generation of artists who really reflected on the bicentennary and how Aboriginal people had largely been written out of that story," Mr Poll said.
Wedge told his personal stories in his paintings, he was illiterate and was partly disabled due to a childhood accident.
Aboriginal art curator and writer Hetti Perkins describes Wedge's paintings as being very forthright.
"He doesn't pull any punches, he doesn't protect or insulate the viewer from the hard facts," she says.
Harry Wedge's works have been exhibited around the world and are held in all major Australian galleries.
A collection of his works from 1993 called 'Stop and Think' is currently on show at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
