PURE AUDACITY

2007, Oil on Linen, 100 x 100cm

Finalist, 2007 Duke Art Prize.  
Finalist, the 35th Alice Art Prize

This picture was created in 2007 against a turbulent background, with prisoners of war were being held without trial in Guantanamo Bay, with the Australian government politicising immigration by detaining refugees in desert camps, and the countryside increasingly forested with plantations of security cameras.  Almost Biblically perfect, the sunset juxtaposes the cameras. Into this hostile environment the laundry introduces an element of humanity. Who put it there, and how? What are they doing there? Why are the cameras watching them? Who authorised this action? And for whose benefit?