Untitled (Barracoon)
2017
Bamboo, rope and shredded legal documents from the Royal commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and the Indonesian Supreme Court judicial review.
2.5 x 3.2 x 2.45 m
Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Untitled (Barracoon)
Another Day in Paradise exhibition text:
Campbelltown Arts Centre and Sydney Festival present the first major exhibition by artist Myuran Sukumaran along with a series of newly commissioned artworks by leading Australian artists, Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Megan Cope, Jagath Dheerasekara, Taloi Havini, Khaled Sabsabi, and Matthew Sleeth, whose works respond to the death penalty and profile human rights.
Curated by Ben Quilty and Michael Dagostino, Another Day in Paradise features a sobering series of portraits painted by Myuran Sukumaran during his incarceration in Bali’s Kerobokan jail and Nusa Kambangan Island. Alongside, sit works by leading Australian artists which consider human rights, the death penalty and the power of art to change lives.
This exhibition highlights the importance of forgiveness and compassion for humanity, while proving the profound power of art to change lives.
Cope’s work is ‘a reflection of the structures and institutions of intergenerational trauma and terror both disseminated and perpetuated on young black bodies’.
EXHIBITION HISTORY
Another Day In Paradise, Campbelltown Arts Centre; 13 January – 26 March 2017
Documentation courtesy of Document Photography
