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 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.’
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures
- Subjects (specific)
- colours (hues or tints) cultural ceremonies indigenous people men (male humans)