HELEN S. TIERNAN - HEROES OF COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS

 HELEN S. TIERNAN
HEROES OF COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS,  2017
30 x 30 cm each
Oil on canvas (Individual $1300 ea.)
 
PROVENANCE
Lake Tyers, VIC
Direct from the Artist, Canberra, ACTCooee Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW 
 
STORY
Small square works: 30 x 30 cmLarge roundels: 51 x 36 cmSmall roundels: 36 x 26 cmThe installation of small intimate portraits are mounted salon style, as a reminder  of their origins .The scene is set in the Sydney area of 1788.Helen has repainted, re historicized and reimagines history, with the likes  of Bennelong, Bungaree, and other members of the Erora people of the Sydney area.No longer as anonymous Savage'', Primitive or other as they appear in colonial accounts but instead as equal amongst others.
 
EXHIBITED
Transculturation: Sublime and Surreal Encounters of First Contact in the Antipodes, May 2017, Coo-ee Art GalleryActivist Expressionism - Artist Talk, March 2017, Cooee Art Gallery