Woolloomooloo

Al Poulet

Opening 22.10.14 6-8pm
Artist Talks 22.11.14 6-7pm

This project has been developed through the Firstdraft Studio Residency Program

In 1852, the traveller Col. G.C. Mundy wrote that the name came from Wala-mala, meaning an Aboriginal burial ground. It has also been suggested that the name means field of blood, due to the alleged Aboriginal tribal fights that took place in the area, or that it is from the pronunciation by Aborigines of windmill, from the one that existed on Darlinghurst ridge until the 1850s. Woolloomooloo is officially the word with the most o's in the English language.

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolloomooloo