About the Sea of Hands

The Sea of Hands was created in 1997 as a powerful, physical representation of the Citizen's Statement on Native Title.
The Citizen's Statement was a petition circulated by ANTaR to mobilise non-Indigenous support for native title and reconciliation

Over 300,000 Australians have signed their names on one of 120,000 plastic hands that make up the Sea of Hands, to show their support for Native Title and reconcilation

Each plastics hands were carrying one signature from the citizen's Statement and they were installed in front of Parliament House in Canberra in October 1997.

The Sea of Hands has become a symbol of the People's Movement for reconciliation .