My artwork is always based on social commentary. It's my ideas about our society that get my creative juices flowing.
This piece called Australian Hospitality is all about my disgust at the refugee policies of both major political parties. I believe it's our moral responsibility to help out as many refugees as we can. Not turn our backs on them. It's my belief that this piece of work reflects what other countries must think of us.
We look like a racist country to me.
Courtesy of Place Gallery
wood, tin, enamel paint
31 x 71 x 52 cm
Finalist
Judges of the 2013 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize: Nick Mitzevich (Director of the Art Gallery of SA) and Professor Ian Howard (College of Fine Arts, UNSW).
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