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.
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Name
Sigi Gabrie
Gender
Unspecified
Roles
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist)
Active Period
  • c.1996
Languages
  • English
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References [<ExternalResource: Information sourced from Curnow, Heather.>, <ExternalResource: Smith, Jason, 'Double Vision', Melbourne: Museum of Modern Art at Heide: Colonial Post Colonial, ed. Juliana Engberg, pp. 38-39.>, <ExternalResource: 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.>, <ExternalResource: Jones, John (1992), 'Dowling, Robert Hawker 1827 - 1886', Dictionary of Australian Artists, edited by Joan Kerr, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp.217-219.>]