Witness for the 623rd man on Manus Island
Dear Prime Minister,
'Witness' (detail), 2018, Ruth Halbert, Stations of the Cross. https://www.perthunitingchurch.org.au/stations/view/station-6
This piece was stitched by a local singer-songwriter, Dawn Barrington, a few weeks before she went to Manus Island to take guitars to 2 of the refugees who had had theirs smashed when Australian and PNG officials forcibly removed the men from Lombrun RPC to Lorengau. Dawn's video of her trip to Manus, made with Tim Maisey, can be seen here.