​Now that I know it's important addresses the absences and silences that have resulted from colonial dispossession and the attempted erasure of cultural connections between people and Country. Bradshaw’s maternal family: Ebsworth’s, were forcefully removed from Wangkumara Country in 1938 and held for two years at the infamous Brewarrina Mission. This period marked the separation of the Ebsworth’s from their culture and Country. It was not till much later that some Ebsworth’s would find the strength to reconnect. Lorna Dixon (nee’ Ebsworth) was an individual who was pivotal in the preservation of Wangkumara culture: 

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“Now that I know it's important I’m telling them everything I know – over and over again. Like the way I learnt from my old people; I want them to hear and remember to” (Lorna Dixon 1985).

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The work invites viewers to engage with the layers of loss and continuity, and to feel both the longing and deep connection to Country that define many Indigenous experiences. Bradshaw’s work challenges dominant narratives of dispossession, emphasising the enduring resilience and survival of Indigenous cultures and the essential need to honour these connections.