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2002: FIERCE, The Meeting of Olive Pink – Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
2001: FIERCE, The Story of Olive Pink – Brown's Mart Theatre, Darwin
1999: SHADES OF PINK – Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

Work : Media Response
2001: The Story of Olive Pink : 2002: The Meeting of Olive Pink : 1999: Shades of Pink

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"Miss Pink was a good woman," we were told by a Lajamanu Aboriginal woman, "she didn’t shoot us."

FIERCE is an artistic adaptation of the life of the anthropologist and botanist Olive Pink who was once labelled "the fiercest white woman in captivity". It was inspired by historical and fictitious elements relating to an encounter between Miss Pink and the Warlpiri people of Lajamanu. This first European contact took place in 1942 at Thompson’s Rock Hole. Life was never to be the same. FIERCE featured the Aboriginal Women’s Dancing Group Lajamanu Yawalyu, the Grey Panthers, guest artist Trevor Patrick as Olive Pink and live music by the Arafura Ensemble.

Fierce Poster
PHOTO: Mark Marcelis

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Media Response

"An intriguing cultural exchange rarely seen in mainstream performance."
Bernard Lane, The Australian

2001: FIERCE, The Story of Olive Pink

	Creative Personnel
	Directors	David McMicken and Tim Newth
	Original Music and Arrangements	Claire Kilgariff, Scott Trenwith and Merrilee Mills
	Visuals	Gaye Hawkes, Matthew Mainsbridge
	Warlpiri Interpreter	Annette Nampijinpa Patrick
	Lighting Design and Production Manager	Sean Newton
	Technical Assistants	Dan Booth, Justin Quinener, Chad Riedel
	Sound Engineering	Matthew Cunliffe
	Slides	Matthew Mainsbridge
	Additional Text	Stephen Carleton
	Costumes	Dixi Joy
	Publicity	Sue Camilleri
	Graphic Design	Mark Marcelis, Studio 7

	Performers
	Trevor Patrick, Nicky Fearn, Tania Lieman, Bilha Smith
	Lajamanu Yawalyu Women: Molly Napurrula Tasman, Rosie Napurrula Tasman, Jeannie Napurrula Birrell, Myra Nungarrayi Herbert, Peggy Napaljarri Rockman, Alice Napaljarri Kelly, Gladys Napangardi Kelly, Kajanarra Napangardi Granites
	Grey Panthers: Kath Baldwin, Adie Bruce, Kay Brown, Audrey Gorring, Bobby Johnston, Crena Hemmings, Barb Quinlan, Shirley Somers, Hannah Stamm, Audrey Svarra, Maves Wadell
	Arafura Ensemble: Claire Kilgariff, Merrilee Mills, Bronwyn Myers, Natalie Chin, Rangaragan Parimala, Sally Crawford

2002: FIERCE, The Meeting of Olive Pink:

	Creative Personnel
	Directors	David McMicken and Tim Newth
	Original Music and Arrangements	Claire Kilgariff, Scott Trenwith and Merrilee Mills
	Slides	Matthew Mainsbridge
	Costumes and Props	Gaye Hawkes, Dixi Joy, David Taylor, Tania Lieman, and Tim Newth
	Additional Text	Stephen Carleton
	Lighting Designer	Greg Thompson
	Sound Engineer	Matthew Cunliffe
	Publicity	Katherine Kilgariff
	Graphic Design	Mark Marcelis, Studio 7

	Performers
	Nicky Fearn, Tania Lieman, Bilha Smith Trevor Patrick, Lynette Lewis, Yoris Wilson, Kay Brown and David McMicken
	Lajamanu Yawalyu Women: Molly Napurrula Tasman, Rosie Napurrula Tasman, Margaret Nungarrayi Martian, Myra Herbert, Judy Napaljarri Walker, Granites, Alice Napaljarri, Gladys Napangardi Tasman, Kajingarra Napangardi Granites
	Arafura Ensemble: Claire Kilgariff, Merrilee Mills, Bronwyn Myers

1999: SHADES OF PINK

	This was a new Media Arts project that brought together a visual artist, a choreographer, a composer-musician, a writer, and a sculptor. Together they created a piece of theatre that was based on Miss Olive Muriel Pink, the "fiercest white woman in captivity".
	The project was divided into two parts. The first part saw the artists travelling to different places to research the life of Olive Muriel Pink. Three went to Alice Springs where Olive spent the last part of her life. One went to the National Archives in Canberra to wade through the volumes of files on her life and one went to Lajamanu to research the effect she had on the Warlpiri people with whom she came into contact.
	The second part was the creation of a multidisciplinary work that was performed at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
	The audience was invited into the ‘parlour’ world of Miss Pink, taken on a journey across the Tasman, through a world of Vice Regal circles into the deserts of central Australia, where she first met the Warlpiri people at Pirdi Pirdi. At the conclusion of the show the audience was invited to share a ’sherry and Madeira cake’.

	Creative Personnel
	Creative Personnel (collaborators and performers)	David McMicken Tim Newth Gaye Hawkes Claire Kilgariff Stephen Carleton

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