Lynne Allen
Name
Lynne Allen
Gender
Female
Birth date
active by 2011
Occupations
Printmaker
Context
Australia
Web
Biography
All the matriarchs in my family have been members of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in South Dakota. All were sent away to government boarding schools, to realign their cultural heritage. All became outsiders in both the native and the white world. Everybody comes to their own cultural truths, and mine is that I am the product of the governments plan to educate the Indian and in the process annihilate the problem. I can trace my Native heritage back six generations to Ita ta Win (Wind Woman), born in the 1830's. I have the writings of my great grandmother, photographs and native beadwork, my mother's baby moccasins, yet I am a white woman. If you meet me you don't believe I have native blood. This fact, how we view one another, plays a big part in my image making. Everyone always misunderstands everyone else. My work is about the difference between what is true about the unknown and what is imagined.
Last Updated
07 Apr 2021