Lin & Tiriki Onus 'Splash' surreal

Lin & Tiriki Onus 'Splash' surrealLin 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

'Acacia and Blackboys' 2004

the symbol for which echoes in the work’s composition

In Butterfly and Flowers

After being hospitalized in the early 1960s

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stained glass windows were a vehicle for the mendicant orders

Artbank and most state galleries

an abstracted shoreline is girt by deep blue water

For collectors of abstract art and prints

titled and editioned on margin: Juniper 86 'Shelley' 21/40

'Sea Creatures II' 2012

photography and digital collage to raise questions around our relationship with the land