Youth under siege
2014
- Medium
- etching
- Measurements
- 49.5 × 33.9 cm (plate) 74.5 × 55.0 cm irreg. (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Cairns, Queensland
- Edition
- ed. 2/35
- Printing/Publishing
- printed by Theo Tremblay, Editions Tremblay Print Workshop, Cairns
- Inscription
- inscribed in pencil l.l.: 2/35
inscribed in pencil l.c.: YouTh Under Siege
inscribed in pencil l.r.: Heather Koowootha 2014
chopmark l.r.: (…illeg.) - Accession Number
- 2015.6
- Department
- Indigenous Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2015
© H e a t h e r K o o w o o t h a , c o u r t e s y o f C a n o p y A r t C e n t r e , C a i r n s - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Physical description
- Youth under siege is a powerful work that addresses the problems of Indigenous youth today through its graphic depiction of a youth with anguished, uncertain gaze, bearing bodily tattoos suggestive of Country and traditional culture.
