Click to enlargeGordon Syron
b. 1941
- Region
- South-East Australia
- Community
- Nabiac
- Language group
- Birpi (Biripi); Worimi
Where the wild flowers grew, c.2015
oil on linen
85 x 140 cm
- Provenance
- The Collection of Gordon and Elaine Syron, NSW
- Artwork story
- This painting is out of my memories as a child growing up in a rainforest on thousands of acres owned by my family and the wildflowers don't grow there anymore as it was logged, divided up into smaller farms, after it was mined and lost by thievery. See my story as written from my testimony and oral tapes.
This image is important to the area of Sydney, as Wildflowers did used to be everywhere in Sydney before colonisation.