Brook ANDREW

The Island IV
(2008)
from The Island series 2008

Medium

synthetic polymer paint and screenprint on blue metallic foil on canvas

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
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Gallery location: Not on display

About this work

The Island IV reimagines an etching by Wilhelm von Blandowski that depicts a group of Nyeri Nyeri men engaged in ceremony. Brook Andrew’s gigantic screenprint parodies Blandowski’s grotesque misunderstanding of the customary ritual of tooth evulsion. In Andrew’s work, the etching is transformed into a lurid blue landscape invaded by crudely drawn ‘savages’ – whom Blandowski described as ‘writhing and convulsing in the dust.’

Artwork Details

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

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Gallery location

Not on display

Subjects (general)

Human Figures

Subjects (specific)

colours (hues or tints) cultural ceremonies indigenous people men (male humans)

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Brook ANDREW

The Island IV
(2008)
from The Island series 2008