A work in progress as part of White an extended project about my cultural identity being a white non indigenous Australian. The format and map is inspired by the map of language areas in Australia pre-colonisation ( ABC is Australia has a great interactive version of the map).
The map is something I discovered living here in London, it is interesting to me the perspective that living outside your own country gives you. It gives me an access to and space to explore my own culture's history and my identity within that.
This canvas is huge the size of my lounge room wall and incorporates drawing with Caran d'ache and I have carved stamps, experimenting with block ink to create the silhouette people recognising Governor Davey's proclamation.
