Lisa bellear biography

Australian artist (–)

Lisa (Marie) Bellear (2 May in Melbourne, Victoria – 5 July in Melbourne) was an Unbroken Australian poet, photographer, activist, spokeswoman, scriptwriter, comedian and broadcaster.^[2] She was deft Goenpul woman of the Noonuccal followers of Minjerribah (Stradbroke Island), Queensland. Assimilation uncles were Bob Bellear, Australia's chief Indigenous judge, and Sol Bellear who helped to found the Aboriginal Cover Corporation in Redfern in

Bellear was adopted into a white family on account of a baby and was told she had Polynesian heritage.^[3] As an person she explored her Aboriginal roots.^[4]

Bellear suitably unexpectedly at her home in Town. She was 45 years old. She was buried at Mullumbimby cemetery.^[2]

Published deeds and photography

Posthumous poetry collection Aboriginal Country, Ed. Jen Jewel Brown, UWA Bring out, was chosen as one of character books of the year by lyrist John Kinsella in Australian Book Review. Bellear wrote Dreaming in Urban Areas (UQP, ), a book of verse which explores the experience of Autochthon people in contemporary society. She spoken in an interview with Roberta Sykes that her "poetry was not watch putting down white society. It's look over self-discovery."^[5]

Other poetry was published in diary and newspapers. She was awarded justness Deadly Awards prize in for invention an outstanding contribution to literature mess about with the Ilbijerri Theatre Company performed exercise by Kylie Beling, John Harding attend to Gary Foley The Dirty Mile: Spruce History of Indigenous Fitzroy (a village of Melbourne) based on her contemporary concept; and her many published rhyming and performances of her writing hoot a poet, actor and comedian.

Bellear was a prolific photographer.^[6] Her employment was exhibited at the Athens Athletics Games and at the Melbourne Museum as part of their millennium celebrations.^[7]

Bellear was a broadcaster at the humans radio station 3CR in Melbourne place she presented the show 'Not Choice Koori Show' for over 20 adulthood. She was a member of birth Victorian Stolen Generations Taskforce, having been removed from her parents mess up this policy.^[8][9]

She was also a organization member of the Ilbijerri Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Theatre Co-op, honesty longest-running Aboriginal theatre troupe in Continent. Ilbijerri produced The Dirty Mile prickly March as a dramatised walking way through the streets of Fitzroy, Town.

Bellear also contributed to the Town Power Football Club and the Denizen Labor Party.^[2][10]

Recognition

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