The Dolls Have Souls is an exhibition of drawings and textiles by Ms Julie-Ann Tylor. The works are contributing towards her Master of Visual and Performing Arts from Charles Sturt University (CSU). They are drawn from her intimate memories of much loved family heirlooms, a set of dolls, inherited by the artist. Ms Tyler says “My mother’s small legacy of the tiny set of Guatemalan Trouble dolls have become a symbol of a rite of passage. The making of art has been a ceremony of transcendence, from the role of a daughter, to the eldest surviving daughter, the default matriarch of the family. The dolls have become a vehicle for describing not only events in my mother’s life, but also as an overlay for episodes in my own life”. The Dolls Have Souls exhibition is on display in the HR Gallop Gallery, CSU Wagga Wagga Campus, which runs from Tuesday 25 to Thursday 27 September 2007.