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Trevor Turbo Brown
1967 – 2017
- Region
- South-East Australia
- Community
- Mildura
- Language group
- Latje Latje
Gathering of Magpies
100 x 150 cm
Est. $2,000 – $3,000
Hammer $1,400
- Provenance
- Purchased directly from the artist Aranda Art, Vic Private Collection, Vic
- Artwork story
- Trevor Turbo Brown was born with an intellectual disability and was abandoned by his family at a young age. As a teenager he took up boxing and became a recognised rapper and breakdancer, and when his adoptive parents joined a visual arts course, they took him along with them. This was a transformative experience by giving him direction and a positive outlook through art. Turbo's subject matter is the outdoor world of birds and animals he encountered as a homeless youth, living along the banks of the Murray River. At that time the animals were his special friends, and these bright and colourful creatures were the primary focus of his world and art.