Wombat and watermelon2005
Marian Drew's 'Wombat and watermelon' is from the artist's acclaimed Still life / Australiana series. This series adopted the pictorial conventions of 17th century still life painting through theatrical arrangements of brightly illuminated objects on draped tabletops, and in particular, the vanitas genre of still-life painting, in which dead animals, over-ripe fruit, hourglasses and skulls are used to symbolise the transience of life: ‘Vanity of vanities, all is vanity’ (Eccl 1:2 NAB). Drew reworks the moral message of this genre for a contemporary Australian audience by photographing native animals that have met their demise on high-voltage power lines, under the wheels of speeding vehicles, or in the mauling mouths of family pets and presenting these as game.
(2018)
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