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COLONISING SPECIES, 1989

$6,500.00

  • 30.3cm x 50.4cm
  • 1989
  • linocut printed in colour inks from three blocks on 100% cotton handmade Magnani Pescia 280gsm paper.
  • Catalog No: 441

‘In 1989 I carved Colonising Species, symbolising the white European swan, the indigenous black swan, both representing a society, a people, a history, and the land, the people being devoured by the people of Britain and ethnics under the authority of the Crown.

‘The blood symbolising that fact that after two hundred years of oppression and war against us, the Indigene, peace, justice, human rights, a Treaty still has not eventuated for us.

Our art is political. Art had always been an extremely powerful communicator of the human factor in all of its inglorious, as well as its glorious manifestations.’  Kevin Gilbert.

41/50 limited edition linocut printed in 2002 in colour inks from three blocks on 100% cotton handmade Magnani Pescia 280gsm paper.

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