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February 19, 2007
Below is another artist from the Lockhart River, Cape York, and member of the Lockhart River Art Gang. These works highlight the development of Aboriginal art from the adaptation of traditional symbolic to a modern aesthetic that explores colour as part of an indigenous visual language. Presumably, there are regional variations in colour and a historical sense of progression from traditional application of palette to the exploration of colour, and a moving beyond being essentially religious art.
Samantha Hobson, Friday Night, 2006, synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Friday night, specially at the canteen and parties is where man and woman fight.It could refer to the drunken brawling in the small community of about 800 people. The image is splashed with scarlet smears of what could be fresh blood, the crimson of clotted blood and tangles of black, like torn-out hair. It is not mystical or religious: it is you about how some Aboriginal people live today.
Samantha Hobson, Burning Grass Season - Hot, 2001
Contemporary aboriginal art is becoming the international face of Australian art; a radical change to being a footnote to modernist European Art.
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This, to me seems much better. I wonder if the top one was inspired by a trip to the city. Orderly yet chaotic