Lin & Tiriki Onus 'Pawns—Yellow' romantic

Lin & Tiriki Onus 'Pawns—Yellow' romanticLin Onus, a Yorta Yorta artist of Aboriginal and Scottish descent, represents a singular voice in Australias cultural life. Esteemed for his wit, talent and panache, Onuss work is a negotiation of culture identity, using both Aboriginal and Western techniques to unsettle categorisation. After being racistly expelled from school at age fourteen, Onus worked as a mechanic and activist, before teaching himself to draw. He forged a style that combined

and was selected twenty-four times to hang in the Archibald and Sulman Prize respectively

From the artist’s archives

burning like a beating heart at the work’s centre

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For those who cherish the vibrant essence of pop art or seek a charming Japanese talisman of Japan

frighteningly realistic

one looking out and the other looking up

the creature emanates a sense of beauty that is inconsistent with what we know to expect of the natural world

She is the recipient of the Banyule Award for Works on Paper

'Cradle Mountain ' 2004

Philippe Le Miere's art takes us on a shape shifting journey through pop culture

and titled lower right: “Mirage People