Artist: Gordon Syron |Title:Untitled (Bungaree) |Year: 2012-13 |Medium: oil on canvas |Dimensions: 198 x 137 cm

$45,000.00

ARTWORK STORY

Syron worked on this painting for two years – it is a huge, angry painting pointing at a failed colonisation of Australia.

The floating bloated bodies refer to the smallpox  deaths which spread from the Sydney community further into bush and cleared the land for the squatters to move in. The painting is dotted with Syron’s love of flannel flowers and waratahs, which are rarely seen in the wild but came from his family’s land.

ARTWORK STORY

Syron worked on this painting for two years – it is a huge, angry painting pointing at a failed colonisation of Australia.

The floating bloated bodies refer to the smallpox  deaths which spread from the Sydney community further into bush and cleared the land for the squatters to move in. The painting is dotted with Syron’s love of flannel flowers and waratahs, which are rarely seen in the wild but came from his family’s land.