Lin Onus(1948-1996)Untitled
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Lin Onus (1948-1996)
signed lower right: 'Lin Onus'
gouache on illustration board
50.0 x 38.0cm (19 11/16 x 14 15/16in).
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Private collection, United States of America
Bonhams, Sydney, 19 November 2017, lot 19
Private collection, Sydney
The clan designs overlaid by Onus onto this landscape are unique to the artist's ancestral country in South East Australia and are found carved into trees as well as on broad shields and other artefacts. Like Onus' overlaying of rarrk onto landscapes in other works, this too "can be interpreted as a process of indigenising the 'other', of claiming custodianship of the land and of subverting the primacy of Western systems of representation".1
1. Margo Neale, Urban Dingo: The Art and Life of Lin Onus, 1949-1996, Thames and Hudson, Victoria, p. 16