ABSTRACT
The ethics application at the university has standard requirements for a prospective researcher to respond to. Firstly, ethics administrators need to outline the aims of their research, a justification for the research and the methodology. There is then a section that focuses on the participants: who they are, how they are recruited and their relationship to them. The university website made reference to the National Statement, and its requirement that: ‘the researcher/s should demonstrate that the research has merit and reflects the ethical values of justice, beneficence and respect for humans. Each artist is deeply contextualised – through engagement with story, people and Country– as belonging to and emerging from a cultural space; this space is also explored as a part of the research process, particularly in relation to the existing memorial landscape, which almost exclusively shares narratives of white conquest.
