Name: Hannah Gadsby’s Oz
Released: 2014-03-18T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Hannah Gadsby

TV Show · Documentary · History

Australian stand-up comedian Hannah Gadsby is a closet art scholar. Armed with a rapier wit and desire to pick beneath the paint she travels across the continent on a mission to debunk the myths of the Australian Identity as defined by our art canon.

2014 · 27m

Starring Hannah Gadsby

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Hannah re-examines colonial-era paintings and realises that white Australia's sense of belonging has a complex and troubled past.
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

Australian art canon tells that the country was founded by an army of pioneer blokes in hats. Hannah picks beneath this hyper-masculine portrait to uncover a more feminine vision.
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

Hannah searches for a more inclusive Australian identity in art, but it seems even more difficult in the post-Cronulla country to define what it is to be Australian.