Gordon Syron b. 1941

Also known as Gordon Frederich Syron
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Worimi/Biripi painter, educator and political agitator, Gordon Syron has been described as 'the father of urban contemporary Aboriginal art'.

Citations

  • de Lorenzo, Catherine (1988), 'A changing Relationship: Aboriginal Themes in Australian Art c. 1938-1988’, SH Ervin Gallery, National Trust of Australia, NSW, Exhibition catalogue.

  • Johnson, Vivien (June 1990), 'Into the Urbane: Urban Aboriginal Art in the Australian art context’, Art Monthly Supplement: The land, the city – the emergence of urban Aboriginal art ed. W. Caruana & J. Isaacs, pp.20-23, .

  • (1995), 'Shimmer in the City’, SBS Television Documentary on Urban Aboriginal Art.

  • Neale, Margo (2000), 'Gordon Syron’, The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, Oxford University Press p.279.

  • Bogias, Jonathon (1997), Australian Art Collector, July – September p.55.

  • Croft, Brenda (1999), Periphery, no. 40-41 Spring/Summer pp. 52-55.

  • Johnson, Vivien (1984), 'Koori Art '84’, Art Network Summer/Autumn.

  • Nicholls, Christine (2000), 'Looking at the Stolen Generation’, Artlink, v.20, no.1 pp. 36-39.

  • Powerhouse Museum and Museum Victoria (2004), 'Our Place: Indigenous Australia Now – Australia’s Contribution to the Cultural Olympiad of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games’, Powerhouse Publishing.

  • Cross Art Projects (2012) 'Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention — 21 June to 21 July 2012’

    http://www.crossart.com.au/index.php/ghost-citizens-witnessing-the-intervention.html

See also

  • ''Judgement By His Peers' is on the front cover of "Ivory Scales: Black Australia and The Law" ed. Kathleen M. Hazelhurst UNSW Press 1987. Another of Syron's works is in the cover image of Craig Cormick's 1999 ACT Book of the Year "Unwritten Histories"'.

Initial data sources

  • Storylines Project, COFA, UNSW