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Gordon Syron, Serenity at Black Light House Museum, 1993, oil on canvas board, 30.5 x 25.5 cm

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b. 1941

Region: South-East Australia
Community: Nabiac
Language group: Birpi (Biripi); Worimi

Serenity at Black Light House Museum, 1993

oil on canvas board

30.5 x 25.5 cm

$1,000

Provenance: The Collection of Gordon and Elaine Syron, NSW
Artwork story: Syron painted this work more than three decades ago. It was really just Gordon’s satirical play on words in the title. To the Black Lighthouse - the lighthouse is always white and blacks didn’t have lighthouses.