Object
2015
- Medium
- injkjet prints
- Accession Number
- 2015.469.1-5
- Department
- First Nations Australia
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2015
© Michael Cook and Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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In this photographic tableau, set in an opulent nineteenth-century drawing room, Michael Cook stages a role reversal to address the global experience of slavery, as he states: ‘It’s the first body of work I’ve tried to get outside of Australia to relate to other colonised countries … but Australians shouldn’t forget the black-birding practices of Queensland’s sugar cane industry’.