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Michael Cook
Object
 2015

Medium
injkjet prints

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2015
© Michael Cook and Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin

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Gallery location
Not on display

 

About this work

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’.

Artwork Details

Accession Number
2015.469.1-5

Department
First Nations Australia

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Essay
From Bark to Neon: Indigenous Art from the NGV Collection
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