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Sydney Opera House, music festivals lit up with Ballarat Indigenous family's stories

Marlene Gilson (right) with husband Barry and curator Coby Edgar (centre) at the Sydney Opera House projection. (Supplied: Blair Gilson)

Gordon woman and Wadawurrung elder Aunty Marlene Gilson first started painting in her late 60s, and within a year she was an exhibiting artist. 

Ms Gilson had asked her children to help keep her occupied while she was unwell, so her son Barry gave her a wooden train set to paint for her grandchildren, while her daughter Deanne left her with a blank canvas.

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