| Augustus Firestone |
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Sydney the City of Sodom
2000 print 1 of 10 30cm 21cm |
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Sydney in the early years of settlement their were not enough women, the ratio was 10 men to 1 woman. Prostitution homosexuality and bestiality were common place. |
Prison Boat
2000 30cm by 21cm Print 1 of 10 |
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What it would of looked like being a convict inside a prison boat to Australia.
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Red shirt
2000 30cm by 21cm Print 1 of 10 |
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Red shirt was the name they gave to someone who had just been flogged. |
Convict poem 1
2000 30cm by 21cm Print 1 of 10 |
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The very day we landed upon the fatal shore. The planters stood around us full twenty score or more.They ranked us up like horses and sold us us out of hand. They chained us up to pull the plough upon Van Diemands land. |
The starvation years
2000 30cm by 21cm Print 1 of 10 |
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During early settlement food became short and farming the land was difficult and unproductive. Sailors were placed as lookouts for supply ships that were desperately needed. |
The Plagues
2000 30cm by 21cm Print 1 of 10 |
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The introduced germs from europe wiped out 90% of the aboriginal population in the region of Sydney |
Arthurs policy on race relations
2000 30cm by 21cm Print 1 of 10 |
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Arthurs policy on race relations was a drawings that was given to Aboriginals to understand the white mans laws. I did the same drawings but more about what really happened to the Aboriginals of Australia. |
Mateship
2000 30cm by 21cm Print 1 of 10 |
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Mateship was first a term given to 2 men who have become close friends and partners. This was due to the fact that there were so few women. |
Convict poem 2
2000 30cm by 21cm Print 1 of 10 |
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I was the convict Sent to hell To make in the desert the living well I split the rock I fell the tree
The nation was Because of me |
Convict or Slave
2000 30cm by 21cm Print 1 of 10 |
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It was hotly debated if convicts were slaves even during the early time’s of colonisation of Australia. |
The Flogging Parson
2000 30cm by 21cm Print 1 of 10 |
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The Reverend Samual Marsden was well know in Australia and New Zealand but amongst the Catholics and Irish called him the Flogging Parson. Due to his actions against them. |
The War of Van Diemans Land
2000 30cm by 21cm Print 1 of 10 |
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This is a depiction of the guerrilla warfare that happened in Tasmania formally known as Van Diemans land |
Slow genocide
2000 30cm by 21cm Print 1 of 10 |
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A depiction of the Aboriginals losing their war against the white man. |
Human proof fence
2002 30cm by 21cm Print 1 of 10 |
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A image of a child refugee in a Australian detention centre |
Bubbling at the mouth
2002 30cm by 21cm Print 1 of 10 |
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A protesting refugee in a Australian detention centre who had swallowed dish washing detergent. |
Sewn Mouth
2002 30cm by 21cm Print 1 of 10 |
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A protesting refugee in a Australian detention centre who had sewn their mouth. |
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