'ASSIMILATION BLUES'

A comment on the 'Stolen Generation' and their enforced labour in domestic servitude and in the Australian cattle industry. Also depicted (in the infants) is the 'breeding-out' of the culture. Winner: 2003 Telstra 'People's Choice' Award (painting toured Australia with the Telstra Exhibition, 2004-5. (190cm x 170cm...Acrylic on Linen) :