Sigi Gabrie

  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist)
Made a work in 1996 which consists of large cut-outs of a boy artist and his Aboriginal subjects taken from colonial artist Robert Dowling's painting, 'Early Effort--Art in Australia'. The work places its two-dimensional antipodean figures against a background of colonial history, aiming to give some authenticity to a far less picturesque past than that depicted.

Citations

  • Information sourced from Curnow, Heather.

  • Smith, Jason, 'Double Vision’, Melbourne: Museum of Modern Art at Heide: Colonial Post Colonial, ed. Juliana Engberg, pp. 38-39.

  • Kerr, Joan (1992), 'Early effort: Art in Australia’, Tasmanian Insights: Essays in honour of Geoffrey Thomas Stilwell, Gillian Winter (ed.), Hobart, State Library of Tasmania, pp 96-112.

  • Jones, John (1992), 'Dowling, Robert Hawker 1827 – 1886’, Dictionary of Australian Artists, edited by Joan Kerr, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp.217-219.

See also

  • 'image of a little boy in an art gallery (and possibly other works) from 'Early Efforts', Chameleon Gallery, Hobart, 1988, curated by Heather Curnow, an exhibition on the theme of Robert Dowling's Early Effort: Art in Australia'.

Initial data sources

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