ARTWORK DETAILS

Florence Hornby
Ngara'loman Painting
Six unframed small canvases hung in a row.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Art can encourage us to question our past and reveal to us unspoken history. In Australia, we have a history of covering up our past – the horrific ways in which Indigenous Australians have been treated. Fascinated by Australian native plants, I have decided to expand my work to native Australia and its loss of culture due to British colonisation. As a young and proud Australian living on Gubbi Gubbi land, I wish to see true reconciliation between non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australians. The immense grief and deep sorrow felt by Indigenous Australians because of dispossession is devastating and deserves more acknowledgment and reconciliation.

ARTWORK PROCESS

Water soluble oil painting on primed canvas - unframed.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Florence Hornby