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July 25, 2007
It's urban art from an excluded people suffering in a deformed social life in the city, and it is quite different from this kind of work that starts from the aboriginal tradition.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, indigenous mural, Adelaide, 2007
It's powerful piece, and one that works within the spaces between the dichotomy of autonomous high art and the low mass art of the culture industry. It is able to self-consciously provide a space for critique of the suffering of indigenous people and the historical silencing of indigenous voices.
It gives expression to desires and needs that have been made speechless in modernity; speechless in the sense that our particular needs, desires and wants have been assigned, and restricted, to the private realm so that happiness and the good life become a private affair. Art gives expression to our speechless needs, desires.
Update:26 July
I do not know much about this particular work apart from it being in a lane way opposite this building :
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Westcare, Adelaide CBD 2007
As the building runs a day care centre we have the transformation of evangelism into welfare by the Baptist Church . I do not think that there is any move to Westcare into an "agency of evangelism" as is beginning to happening elsewhere.
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This is a Very Positive piece.
The painter/painters seem to seek a re birthing of aboriginaldom. To look to the future but never forget the wisdom of the old ways remembering it was the earth/land that healed and sustained them.
Is it part of a group of murals? and where abouts in Adelaide is it?