artist and printmaker, produced the most shockingly bitter image on Aboriginal Deaths in Custody among the many produced by Aboriginal artists in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Her black and white ink drawing Untitled depicts thin black forms hanging in the gloom overpainted in white with the words 'What do you call five blackfellas in a police cell? A blackmobile’. 'Who’s laughing?’ appears in tiny letters below. It was shown in the 1989 Perspecta at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in the Koori Art display even though Johnston is not of Aboriginal descent but via adoption by the writer Ruby Langford. The work was also shown in Artists and Cartoonists in Black and White at the S.H. Ervin Gallery in 1999.
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- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
