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Eva Johnson
Eva Knowles Johnson (born 1946) is an Aboriginal Australian poet, actor, director, and playwright. She is known for directing the first Aboriginal Women's Arts Festival in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1985, for which she wrote the play Tjindarella.
Eva Knowles Johnson was born in 1946 at Daly River in the Northern Territory. She belongs to the Malak Malak people, an Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory. At the age of two, Johnson was taken from her mother and placed on a Methodist Mission on Croker Island, Northern Territory. Aged 10, she was transferred to an orphanage in Adelaide.
Johnson gained an associate diploma in community development at the South Australian Institute of Technology and also studied for a degree in Aboriginal studies at the University of Adelaide.
Johnson has worked as an enrolled nurse, poet, actor, director, playwright, and teacher.
She began writing in 1978. Her first poem became the title of the first play ever produced by Black Theatre in Adelaide, When I Die You'll All Stop Laughing. The satirical revue was performed in the Union Hall at the University of Adelaide in 1978.
Johnson played the part of Alice Wilson (credited as Eva Birrit) in the fourth segment of the 1981 award-winning TV series Women of the Sun.
Johnson's play Tjindarella examined the oppression of Aboriginal Australians and highlighted the effects of government policy on the forced removal of children from their parents and culture.
In February to March 1985 Johnson directed the first Aboriginal Women's Arts Festival in Adelaide, at which Tjindarella was performed from 1 to 16 February 1985. A grassroots group called Black Women In Focus had been formed in 1983, dedicated to organising this nation-first gathering of Aboriginal women artists. The event took place over two and a half weeks, and showcased Aboriginal women's art, performance, and ceremony in high-profile venues in Adelaide, such as the Adelaide Festival Centre, for the first time. The group had to apply for an exemption to the Sex Discrimination Act to bar men from attending a sacred women's ceremony on the River Torrens, which as run by senior law women of a desert people.
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Eva Johnson
Eva Knowles Johnson (born 1946) is an Aboriginal Australian poet, actor, director, and playwright. She is known for directing the first Aboriginal Women's Arts Festival in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1985, for which she wrote the play Tjindarella.
Eva Knowles Johnson was born in 1946 at Daly River in the Northern Territory. She belongs to the Malak Malak people, an Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory. At the age of two, Johnson was taken from her mother and placed on a Methodist Mission on Croker Island, Northern Territory. Aged 10, she was transferred to an orphanage in Adelaide.
Johnson gained an associate diploma in community development at the South Australian Institute of Technology and also studied for a degree in Aboriginal studies at the University of Adelaide.
Johnson has worked as an enrolled nurse, poet, actor, director, playwright, and teacher.
She began writing in 1978. Her first poem became the title of the first play ever produced by Black Theatre in Adelaide, When I Die You'll All Stop Laughing. The satirical revue was performed in the Union Hall at the University of Adelaide in 1978.
Johnson played the part of Alice Wilson (credited as Eva Birrit) in the fourth segment of the 1981 award-winning TV series Women of the Sun.
Johnson's play Tjindarella examined the oppression of Aboriginal Australians and highlighted the effects of government policy on the forced removal of children from their parents and culture.
In February to March 1985 Johnson directed the first Aboriginal Women's Arts Festival in Adelaide, at which Tjindarella was performed from 1 to 16 February 1985. A grassroots group called Black Women In Focus had been formed in 1983, dedicated to organising this nation-first gathering of Aboriginal women artists. The event took place over two and a half weeks, and showcased Aboriginal women's art, performance, and ceremony in high-profile venues in Adelaide, such as the Adelaide Festival Centre, for the first time. The group had to apply for an exemption to the Sex Discrimination Act to bar men from attending a sacred women's ceremony on the River Torrens, which as run by senior law women of a desert people.