art + soul - Series 2 (ATOM Study Guide)

The Australian landscape. From the Torres Strait Islands to the forests of Tasmania.

Its colours, shapes, textures, its uniqueness of plants, animals, terrain. Its ancient yet continuous, thriving, vibrant culture.

Captured on film as the credits roll for art + soul Series 2, produced for ABC TV in 2014 and following the original series of 2009–2010, this vast, enigmatic world is the country of our Indigenous people and the bedrock of this series.

Country. A unique, intensely special word for the people of the oldest living culture on the planet. As the voiceover of narrator Hetti Perkins tells us:

This ancient land is our heartland. It is our flesh and blood. Our culture springs from and binds us to our country