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Skin / Sunset 2 by Joshua Bonson
Skin / Sunset 2 - 2019

200 x 170 cm
#17796 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$12,000.00

Skin - Golden Sands by Joshua Bonson
Skin - Golden Sands - 2019

200.0 x 120.0 cm
#17692 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$9,600.00

Skin: Land, Water, Us by Joshua Bonson
Skin: Land, Water, Us - 2020

118 x 200 cm
#18652 LOCATION: Paddington
$9,600.00

Ocean Shades by Joshua Bonson
Ocean Shades - 2020

160 x 120 cm
#18653 LOCATION: Paddington
$8,000.00

Skin - Torres Strait by Joshua Bonson
Skin - Torres Strait - 2019

166 x 103 cm
#17693 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$8,000.00

Giant Clam by Joshua Bonson
Giant Clam - 2020

120 x 120 cm
#18654 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$5,200.00

Inspiration by Joshua Bonson
Inspiration - 2020

120 x 100 cm
#18593 LOCATION: Paddington
$4,400.00

Skin  by Joshua Bonson
Skin - 2020

120 x 100 cm
#18592 LOCATION: Paddington
$4,400.00

Skin - Kadal by Joshua Bonson
Skin - Kadal - 2019

116 x 87 cm
#17695 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$4,400.00

Skin by Joshua Bonson
Skin

90.0 x 52.0 cm
#16702 LOCATION: Paddington
$2,400.00

Skin by Joshua Bonson
Skin - 2018

74 x 74 cm
#16653 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$2,000.00

Skin (Triptych) by Joshua Bonson
Skin (Triptych) - 2018

30.5 x 91.5 cm
#16646 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$1,600.00

Skin by Joshua Bonson
Skin - 2018

200 x 160 cm
#16698
SOLD

Skin by Joshua Bonson
Skin - 2018

120 x 120 cm
#16695
SOLD

Skin by Joshua Bonson
Skin - 2018

120 x 120 cm
#16696
SOLD

Skin by Joshua Bonson
Skin - 2018

120 x 117 cm
#16694
SOLD

Skin by Joshua Bonson
Skin - 2018

120 x 120 cm
#16697
SOLD

Skin, My Home by Joshua Bonson
Skin, My Home - 2019

120 x 120 cm
#17797
SOLD

Skin - Kadal by Joshua Bonson
Skin - Kadal - 2019

116 x 84 cm
#17694
SOLD

Skin by Joshua Bonson
Skin - 2019

126 x 93 cm
#17798
SOLD

Skin by Joshua Bonson
Skin - 2018

138 x 74 cm
#16700
SOLD

Skin by Joshua Bonson
Skin

90 x 52 cm
#16699
SOLD

Skin by Joshua Bonson
Skin

90 x 52 cm
#16701
SOLD

Skin by Joshua Bonson
Skin - 2018

74 x 74 cm
#16652
SOLD

Skin by Joshua Bonson

Skin - 2018

Synthetic Polymer Paint on Canvas
200 x 160 cm
SOLD

#16698


Provenance

Direct from the artist, Darwin, NT

Coo-ee Art, Sydney, NSW

Story

SKIN is a celebration of his family's totem - The Saltwater Crocodile - and his personal view of the world. Whilst in his senior years at school, Bonson started to dabble with paint, creating textured black and white paintings in acrylics in what he describes as a 3D style. He applies his paint thickly creating works that are contemporary in appearance yet embody age old Indigenous traditions and meanings.

The idea is to recreate the scales of a saltwater crocodile, which my grandfather told me is my totem. The armoured skin of the reptile is shown by the built-up serrations of the paint and other materials applied by hand or directly from the tube. But it also works on different levels – it can be read as a close-up of a reptile’s skin and as a landscape both seen from a distance and as close-up details of rock’s and sand - Joshua Bonson

In this current body of work, colour too plays an integral role. Thick underlying layers of blues and greens represent the sea; shades of black, yellow, orange and red create the details of rocks and sand reflecting country. Through his art, Bonson is trying to rediscover his lost family culture and establish his place within it.

My great grandmother was from Badu in the Torres Strait Islands and her eldest son was my grandfather, Donald Bonson Senior. He is the inspiration for my work. He told me everything is connected - the land, the water and us. Like the crocodile, we are saltwater people with an ancient lineage - Joshua Bonson

Joshua also traces his ancestry through his great-great grandmother Dolly Bonson, a Jawoyn woman from Katherine who was also known as Bett-Bett the servant girl featured in We of the Never-Never and The Little Black Princess books by Jeannie Gunn.


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