This exhibition involves fifty-nine exhibits, including paintings, collages, sculpture and installations that fill three gallery spaces. The artist records immutable facts of Australian history and references a contemporary generation which is reclaiming their heritage so as to be able to move toward the future with pride in knowing who they are.

MacDonald's art is always intriguing, not just for its subject matter but for how it is produced, what is placed on the surface and what comes through from beneath. Here the artist employs mostly earth ochres and soft browns that evoke the idea of the land and produce a sense of warmth, and white is used to depict mission clothing or, when rubbed over brown faces, to signify a dual heritage. The exhibits tell the stories of children taken from their homes, given new names then told to forget the past.

But they can't. In They Were Innocent a beautiful child remembers her infancy curled in a coolamon and surrounded by loving arms and half forgotten aunties. Emu Hunt has a boy remembering hunting stories or experiences from another life and Memories 1 & 2 depict photo album pictures of children with brown/white faces. The edge of the painted photographs become doors that dissolve into golden landscapes marked with hand prints of ownership. Reclaiming that ownership is stunningly illustrated in Innocence Restored where a determined youth stares out at us from a halo of ochre hand prints.

Other innocents who lost their identity are remembered in small paintings of young children's faces, some wearing tribal markings, others superimposed on a convoluted path that leads to 'home'. Whether shy or bold, boy or girl, each has a Christian name but their faces wear a sense of pride in who they really are. These excellent little portraits illustrate how the memories of earlier generations continue to live in the current one. They also illustrate the artist's ability to communicate so much with so few strokes of the brush.

MacDonald calls on different styles to make her statement. Some paintings are quite realistic while others are more simplified in the drawing, all are equally potent in their message. Then there are the collages on hand made paper and the coolamons that tell their own tales under the layers of lacquer.

There is much to see, to think about and to admire here. As a whole the exhibition is uplifting as it speaks of Indigenous people wanting and needing to reclaim their identity, their culture and their heritage.  It is about coming home and that's always something to celebrate.