Age old culture absorbs waves of migration to make up the complex multi-cultural population of Australia. In its Asian location under the Southern Cross recent history has seen the fading of British influence and the rising of workers’ rights, women’s rights, indigenous rights and awareness of the environment. Society is like a bushfire, feeding on whatever fuel/attitudes are within. Under the smoke plume is an image from another work showing which way the wind blows.
Exhibited in solo exhibition Virtue or Obsession, Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre, Adelaide, SA 1994
Acrylic pigment on silk, wool filled, hand stitched, free hanging
1700mm x 1100mm
1994
Photograph: Michael Coates
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Collection, Australia
19 October 1994