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| Myself and my artwork: Ode to Henry Vincent, 2017, ink and tea on paper |
Cabin Fever was an exhibition put on by students following a weekend visit to Wadjemup Bidi (Rottnest Island), we all created artworks on the island and then developed them afterwards for the exhibition. The artwork I submitted was a poem I wrote after finding out about the dark history of the island in that it used to be an Aboriginal prison and is now covered in unmarked graves of the prisoners. The poem is an ironic Ode to a superintendent of the prison who was responsible for many deaths and much mistreatment of the prisoners. I also co-curated the exhibition.