Published in Overland Issue 243 Winter 2021 · Art Cover art: Anne Barnetson Anne Barnetson Cover Back Read the rest of Overland 243 If you enjoyed this piece, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four brilliant issues for a year Anne Barnetson Anne Barnetson is an illustrator working on unceded Noongar Boodja in Boorloo, Western Australia. She works by hand and is an optimist deep down. More by Anne Barnetson › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 24 October 202524 October 2025 · Art A coin is a mistranslation: Tamsen Hopkinson’s The Wishing Well Briony Galligan and Rosie Isaac The Wishing Well picks apart the mistranslations in Te Tiriti/the Treaty of Waitangi, to make audible the dangerous mistranslations of our present. It remakes language, history and material phenomena into a shimmering web. It is a proposition that invites us into meaning-making. Not the fixed meaning of mistranslation or property boundaries, but a generative, unfurling, interrelated meaning. 11 June 202512 June 2025 · Art The case of the missing painting: art, power, and the politics of reviews Sarah Schmidt In Australia’s arts sector, two recent reviews have appeared to uphold integrity while quietly protecting the institutions themselves. They tell a revealing story about how federal cultural organisations are handling controversy, and why the public should care.
