Sharon West
Taking inspiration from the art salons of the Victorian period, these two installations present a reimagining of a colonial art salon featuring Australian themed art works. Ranging from historical subject matter with skewed and in an absurdist takes on exploration, colonisation. and culture. Heidelberg School painters are placed in unexpected situations and Indigenous figures mix with crypto creatures. Decorative arts are also a focus with humorous re-workings of specimen domes, including a blue bunyip and giant spider, as well as a large silver gilded emu egg.
The notion of the transplantation of European culture onto the Australian landscape is an underlying theme and so is the clash of two foreign cultures, represented by the Kangarooster knocking over the bust of Queen Victoria. The medium of gold and silver gilding symbolises the excesses of gold rush era
Melbourne., in which the newly rich filled their mansions with artworks and object d’art in an ostentatious emulation of the landed gentry houses of Britain.
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Streeton Is Interrupted By Otto The Great Who Returns To The Wrong Heidelberg by Sharon West
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An Alien Does Does His Back In Attempting To Abduct Miranda At Hanging Rock by Sharon West
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Two Koori Children Play With A Mergalah by Sharon West
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Burne Jones Paints His Antipodean Angel by Sharon West
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Matthew Flinders Encounters The Giant Black Swan And Warrior Of Swan Bay by Sharon West
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Matthew Flinders Is Puzzled To Discover A Ruined Temple Of Diana In New Holland by Sharon West
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Streeton Is Surprised To Discover Powerlines Installed At His Favourite Painting Spot by Sharon West
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A Squatter Is Surprised To Find Giant Red Kangaroos Stealing His Sheep by Sharon West
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A Victorian Gentleman Walks His Blue Bunyip by Sharon West
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