In this visual essay I ‘exhibit’ paintings that depict weaponised airborne drones or indications of their presence, capabilities and effects. I place these elements in cosmic landscapes to take the viewer around and beyond contemporary task-oriented scopic technology, thus turning human vision back upon the surveillance. Human vision, from seeing with an eye, to […]
Militarised Recognition: Visualising Indigenous People in the ADF
Canberra 2017. Three special exhibitions tell the stories and report the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Australians serving in the Australian Defence Force (ADF). For Country, For Nation, the current special exhibition of the Australian War Memorial (AWM) (20 September 2016 – 20 September 2017), gathers 60 works by 32 artists, six of […]
Maralinga: Nuclear Colonialism, Militarism, and Colonial Arrogance
I didn’t know about Maralinga until I came across the art exhibition titled Black Mist Burnt Country hosted by the S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney. I wasn’t the only one, though. When I shared the shame for my ignorance at a couple of watering holes, I realised that shame and ignorance were more widespread than I […]
