Mai family, Maidstone
(c. 1990)
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of The Hugh D. T. Williamson Foundation, Founder Benefactor, 1992
© Viv Méhes
- Gallery location
- Not on display
Artwork Details
typed on accompanying paper label: “My name in Vinh. I left Vietnam in 1982 with my older brother. We lived in / Thailand in a refugee camp for about three years before we came to Australia. / In 1988 my two sisters and two brothers left Vietnam and went to Bidong, an / island belonging to Malaysia. They lived there for over a year before they / joined us in Australia one month ago. We have all lived in this house in / Maidstone for one month. We want to move because this house is too far / from the market and the school. I want to become a composer of music and / am at present working as a mail sorter at the G.P.O. (General Post Office). My / brothers and sisters are all learning English at the moment and they all plan to / go to University next year. I still have four brothers and sisters in Vietnam and / I hopE to eventually sponsor them out here too.” / VAN VINH LOAN HUNG and DUNG MAI / MAIDSTONE (underlined)
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of The Hugh D. T. Williamson Foundation, Founder Benefactor, 1992
© Viv Méhes
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