Jonathan Jones <br>untitled (transcriptions of country)
Examining making, remaking and how culture is altered through exchange. Jonathan Jones, untitled (transcriptions of country) looks at the colonial transportation, trade and translation of Australian native plants, animals and Aboriginal portraits, objects and music and their associated knowledges, by examining the 1800–1804 French expedition commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte under the command of Captain Nicolas Baudin. It remains one of the largest scientific expeditions to Australia, amassing an extraordinary collection that was taken from Australia to France, to the Château de Malmaison, the private residence of Napoléon and Joséphine. The publication expands on Jones’ exhibition of the same name, which premiered at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, in November 2021 and then presented at Artspace, Sydney, in December 2023. Today, Malmaison operates as a museum, and as Jones’ research brings to light, the collection is no longer intact, with many of the animals, plants and cultural obje