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exhibition It All Started from Black

From 1st to 30th April 2008

in Memory of Lin Onus

It All Started from Black - in Memory of Lin Onus To be opened by: Tiriki Onus
Son of Lin Onus Opening 6:30pm - 8:30pm: Thursday 8 May
Exhibition continues until Saturday 7 June 2208 Works presented at this exhibition include:

  1. Lin Onus Prints - Published by P.J.P.A.
  2. Collaboration works by Lin Onus and Shaike I am Art Snir - (Some signed by both whilst some are not signed at all)
  3. Prints that Lin Onus started to work on and were finished by Tiriki Onus and Shaike I am Art Snir - (Walawala garkman and Stingray and Pebbles). Signed by Tiriki Onus.
  4. Prints commissioned by the Lin Onus Estate - (based on Lin Onus’ original image an printed by Shaike I am Art Snire. Signed by Tiriki Onus.
  5. Iris Giclee on Arches
    Giclee (pronounced Zhee-Clay) is a French phrase originally coined in the 17th Century meaning "to squirt or spurt." It refers to a printing technique brought about by a machine called the Iris. In many circles the two words are used synonymously to refer to this printing process. The process requires that the substrate, such as paper or canvas, is carefully attached to a spinning drum while infinitely small droplets of archival inks are sprayed at a very high speed. This renders an amazingly smooth and consistent image - a Museum Quality Fine Art Reproduction. The Iris process allows the artist to have substantial control over the range of color and the quality of the print.
  6. Digital archival reproduction. Pigment ink on fibre mouldmade
Lin Onus Lin Onus was a largely self-taught artist. Particularly important in his development was his visits to Garmedi (Arnhem Land) starting in 1986. Jack Wunuwun, the Yolngu artist, introduced him into the Murrungun-Djinang clan and gave him permission to use some of traditional images in his paintings. His cultural education on the Aboriginal side was also provided by visits to Cummeragunja with his father, and stories told by his uncle Aaron Briggs, known as 'the old man of the forest' who gave him his Koori name - Burrinja, meaning 'star'. They would sit on the banks of the Murray River within view of the Barmah Forest, Lin's spiritual home, the subject of many of his later paintings and his final resting place. Lin's father had been of the Yorta Yorta people from the Barmah Forest country, and Lin also used images from this area in his paintings. The images in his works include haunting photorealist portrayals of the Barmah red gum forests of his father's ancestral country, and the use of rarrk cross-hatching-based based painting style that he learned (and was given permission to use when in Arnhemland). His painting Barmah Forest won Canberra's national Aboriginal Heritage Award in 1994. In Sydney Onus' iconic Fruit Bats at the Art Gallery of New South Wales deploys a commercial Hills Hoist clothesline, an object of nigh-on sacred significance in the suburban dreaming of white Australia to service as a tree to a colony of magnificently coloured, fibreglass bats on whose backs are traced the rarrk cross-hatching style. In conjunction with this exhibition Coo-ee Gallery will also be showing the SBS Television film, Lin Onus - Bridge Between Cultures, Produced and directed by Mika Nishimura in 1998. A documentary based on an extensive interview with the artist, filmed the year before he died. Throughout the program, Lin talks about his struggle with his identity and how he overcame that struggle as he worked with his art. His works raise many serious issues, but they are also full of his sense of humour. 'He was one of the key people in bringing about a change in perception of what had been disparagingly referred to as urban Aboriginal art', says Lin's close friend and Aboriginal activist, Gary Foley. Apart from achieving national prominence as a contemporary Australian artist - Lin Onus is represented in over 50 major public, private and corporate collections - he established an international profile through seminal exhibitions such as Tagari Lia: My Family - Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Australia (Glasgow 1990), and the landmark exhibition Aratjara: Art of the First Australian's which toured three continents from 1993. He has also been shown in Madrid, Montpellier, Kyoto, New York, Washington and Seoul. Being self-taught afforded him what his primary agent Gabrielle Pizzi calls "a wonderful freedom" to develop. His exhibition Urban Dingo: The Art of Lin Onus was showcased at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane and the Melbourne Museum. Lin Onus died prematurely at the age of 47 in 1996.

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Collaboration 1/1 by Lin Onus
Collaboration 1/1
Lin Onus 21

100 x 70 cm
#7828
$N/A

Reflection in Blue with Frog Heads Shapes by Lin Onus
Reflection in Blue with Frog Heads Shapes
Lin Onus 21

? x ? cm
#7844
$N/A

Relection in Blue with Frog Head Shapes 1/1 by Lin Onus
Relection in Blue with Frog Head Shapes 1/1 - 2000
Lin Onus 21

? x ? cm
#7827
$N/A

In Memory 1/1 by Lin Onus
In Memory 1/1 - 1996
Lin Onus 21

70 x 100 cm
#7831
$N/A

Black on Black on Grey on White Paper 1/1 by Lin Onus
Black on Black on Grey on White Paper 1/1 - 1996
Lin Onus 21

80 x 120 cm
#7832
$N/A

Black on Black on Grey on White Paper 1/1 by Lin Onus
Black on Black on Grey on White Paper 1/1 - 1996
Lin Onus 21

80 x 120 cm
#7833
$N/A

Blue Reflection with Frogs Heads (large) 1/1 by Lin Onus
Blue Reflection with Frogs Heads (large) 1/1 - 1994
Lin Onus 21

70 x 100 cm
#7834
$N/A

Blue Leaves 1/1 by Lin Onus
Blue Leaves 1/1 - 1994
Lin Onus 21

70 x 100 cm
#7843
$N/A

In Memory of Our Ancestors who were 1/1 by Lin Onus
In Memory of Our Ancestors who were 1/1 - 1996
Lin Onus 21

70 x 100 cm
#7835
$N/A

Pebbles with Black Rectangle and Houses 1/1 by Lin Onus
Pebbles with Black Rectangle and Houses 1/1 - 1996
Lin Onus 21

70 x 100 cm
#7842
$N/A

Meaning of Life 1/1 by Lin Onus
Meaning of Life 1/1 - 1994
Lin Onus 21

80 x 120 cm
#7845
$N/A

To Rover 1/1 by Lin Onus
To Rover 1/1 - 1996
Lin Onus 21

70 x 100 cm
#7836
$N/A

Green & Red Pattern with Frog Pattern 1/1 by Lin Onus
Green & Red Pattern with Frog Pattern 1/1 - 1994
Lin Onus 21

70 x 100 cm
#7830
$N/A

X & Ray by Tiriki Onus and Michael Eather
X & Ray - 2002
Tiriki Onus and Michael Eather

133 x 70 cm
#7929
$N/A

X & Ray by Tiriki Onus and Michael Eather
X & Ray - 2002
Tiriki Onus and Michael Eather

200 x 97 cm
#7930
$N/A

Splash Experimental by Lin Onus
Splash Experimental - 2000
Lin Onus 21

76 x 56 cm
#7816
$N/A

Reeds - Experimental by Lin Onus
Reeds - Experimental - 2000
Lin Onus 21

76 x 56 cm
#7817
$N/A

Reflection Experimental by Lin Onus
Reflection Experimental - 1996
Lin Onus 21

60 x 84 cm
#7819
$N/A

Reflection Experimental by Lin Onus
Reflection Experimental - 1996
Lin Onus 21

60 x 84 cm
#7820
$N/A

Reflection Experimental (14 different colours) by Lin Onus
Reflection Experimental (14 different colours) - 2002
Lin Onus 21

60 x 84 cm
#7841
$N/A

Reflection on Pebbles Experimental (framed) by Lin Onus
Reflection on Pebbles Experimental (framed) - 1996
Lin Onus 21

50 x 70 cm
#7821
$N/A

Pebbles Experimental (with black dots and leaves) 1/1 by Lin Onus
Pebbles Experimental (with black dots and leaves) 1/1 - 1996
Lin Onus 21

? x ? cm
#7823
$N/A

Pebbles Experimental (with green & black dots) 1/1 by Lin Onus
Pebbles Experimental (with green & black dots) 1/1 - 1996
Lin Onus 21

? x ? cm
#7825
$N/A

GumbirriGarginingi W/P by Lin Onus
GumbirriGarginingi W/P - 1996
Lin Onus 21

70 x 100 cm
#7886
SOLD

Garkman 48/60 by Lin Onus
Garkman 48/60 - 1991
Lin Onus 21

70 x 101 cm
#7857
SOLD

Koi at Sankei-en 59/99 by Lin Onus
Koi at Sankei-en 59/99 - 1989
Lin Onus 21

93 x 65 cm
#7858
SOLD

Reflection Experimental with Back Rectangle 1/1 by Lin Onus
Reflection Experimental with Back Rectangle 1/1 - 1996
Lin Onus 21

70 x 100 cm
#7824
$N/A

Dislocation Red Experiment by Lin Onus
Dislocation Red Experiment - 2000
Lin Onus 21

76 x 56 cm
#7839
$N/A

Dislocation Red Experiment by Lin Onus
Dislocation Red Experiment - 2000
Lin Onus 21

76 x 56 cm
#7840
$N/A

Pawn Red A/P 20 by Lin Onus
Pawn Red A/P 20 - 2000
Lin Onus 21

56 x 76 cm
#7826
$N/A

Pawn Yellow 5/20 by Lin Onus
Pawn Yellow 5/20 - 2000
Lin Onus 21

56 x 76 cm
#7829
$N/A

Dislocation Red 5/20 by Lin Onus
Dislocation Red 5/20 - 2000
Lin Onus 21

76 x 56 cm
#7837
$N/A

Dislocation Yellow 20/20 by Lin Onus
Dislocation Yellow 20/20 - 2000
Lin Onus 21

76 x 56 cm
#7838
$N/A

Walawala Garkman by Lin Onus
Walawala Garkman - 1996
Lin Onus 21

50 x 70 cm
#7881
SOLD

Stingrays 40/70 by Lin Onus
Stingrays 40/70 - 1996
Lin Onus 21

50 x 70 cm
#7818
$N/A

Reflection on Pebbles by Lin Onus
Reflection on Pebbles - 1996
Lin Onus 21

50 x 70cm
#7822 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$1,800.00

Fish & Lillies, Dingo Springs /499 by Lin Onus
Fish & Lillies, Dingo Springs /499 - 1996
Lin Onus 21

70 x 90 cm
#7846 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$1,100.00

Barmah Forest 26/999 by Lin Onus
Barmah Forest 26/999 - 1994
Lin Onus 21

70 x 87 cm
#7847 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$1,100.00

Morumbeeja Pitoa by Lin Onus
Morumbeeja Pitoa - 1993
Lin Onus 21

90 x 90 cm
#7848 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$1,100.00

X and Ray in the Garden of Earthly Delights 12/48 by Lin Onus
X and Ray in the Garden of Earthly Delights 12/48 - 2000
Lin Onus 21

77 x 57 cm
#7867 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$1,100.00

You Haven't Seen My Keys have you Mick? /48 by Lin Onus
You Haven't Seen My Keys have you Mick? /48 - 2000
Lin Onus 21

77 x 57 cm
#7868 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$1,100.00

X and Ray Witness the Sinking of the Ship 13/48 by Lin Onus
X and Ray Witness the Sinking of the Ship 13/48
Lin Onus 21

55 x 77 cm
#7870 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$1,100.00

X and Ray Discover father's Country by Lin Onus
X and Ray Discover father's Country
Lin Onus 21

77 x 57 cm
#7871 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$1,100.00

Still Looking 5/48 by Lin Onus
Still Looking 5/48 - 2000
Lin Onus 21

77 x 57 cm
#7869
$990.00


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