Welfare
1990
- Medium
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas board
- Measurements
- 60.9 × 45.7 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Bondi, Sydney, New South Wales
- Inscription
- inscribed in white acrylic paint on work l.l.: H J. Wedge .90
- Accession Number
- 1997.88
- Department
- First Nations Australia
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Christine Collingwood, 1997
© The Estate of HJ Wedge
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Gallery 3
Ground Level, NGV Australia - About this work
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HJ Wedge was born at Erambie Mission near Cowra in New South Wales. He worked as a drover and fruit picker before moving to Warrane/Sydney in 1988. After visiting the Boomalli Indigenous Art Centre, he enrolled to study photography and painting at the Eora Centre for Visual and Performing Arts and quickly became known for his distinctive, often-nightmarish paintings drawing on his experiences of mission life, racism and injustice.
- Physical description
- Rainbow coloured background. In the centre is a large black figure emerging out of the background with outstretched arms and evil face, reaching to a male, female and a child figure
