Artist: Gordon Syron |Title: The Gender of God |Year: 2009 |Medium: oil on canvas |Dimensions: 50 x 45 cm; 53 x 48.5 cm frame

$2,750.00

ARTWORK STORY

What is the gender of God?
Is God a man or a woman?
I ask is God black or white or pink or yellow?

As Aboriginal men are herded onto the mission, they are expected to surrender their spears in a pile at the gate. Some refuse, holding their spears in defiance. The Redcoats stand by, while the Preacher man patiently waits for the Aboriginal people to come into the church to be converted to Christianity and be saved from their sins. There are three tombstones in the foreground and the southern cross is visible in the top right corner.

ARTWORK STORY

What is the gender of God?
Is God a man or a woman?
I ask is God black or white or pink or yellow?

As Aboriginal men are herded onto the mission, they are expected to surrender their spears in a pile at the gate. Some refuse, holding their spears in defiance. The Redcoats stand by, while the Preacher man patiently waits for the Aboriginal people to come into the church to be converted to Christianity and be saved from their sins. There are three tombstones in the foreground and the southern cross is visible in the top right corner.