The Island IV
(2008)
from The Island series 2008
- Medium
- synthetic polymer paint and screenprint on blue metallic foil on canvas
- Measurements
- 250.3 × 300.4 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Melbourne, Victoria
- Edition
- ed. 3/3
- Accession Number
- 2017.212
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Michael Schwarz and David Clouston through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2017
© Brook Andrew/Copyright Agency, 2023 - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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The Island IV reimagines, magnifies and renders fantastical a previously little-known photographic reproduction of an etching by Wilhelm von Blandowski of a men’s ceremony of the Nyeri Nyeri people of the Murray-Darling region of southern New South Wales. Brook Andrew’s gigantic screenprint parodies Blandowski’s grotesque misunderstanding of the customary ritual of tooth evulsion as a lurid blue reflective myth-scape invaded by crudely drawn ‘savages’ – whom Blandowski described as ‘writhing and convulsing in the dust’.
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures
- Subjects (specific)
- colours (hues or tints) cultural ceremonies indigenous people men (male humans)