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This work was created for the 2002 Belconnen Artists Network (BeAN) group exhibition titled Land (2002 was the International Year of the Land). After the two world wars last century, returning servicemen were given land as part of a resettlement scheme. Much of the land was marginal at best and the ex-servicemen often struggled for years to make a go of it before drought, pests and exhaustion drove them of the land disillusioned by the empty promise of the Australian national anthem: "... We've golden soil and wealth for toil;...Our land abounds in nature's gifts/Of beauty rich and rare..." Such is the lie of the land. Steel 0.5 mm thick. Height approx 30 cm. Private collection. |
