Bondi - Black Beach, 2002

oil on canvas

126 x 138 cm; 132.5 x 144.5 cm (frame)

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Provenance: The Collection of Gordon and Elaine Syron, NSW
Artwork story: When Gordon painted Bondi - Black Beach, he was in pain about Bondi Beach. He talked about how a long time ago, this beautiful, breathtaking beach belonged only to Aboriginal people and how much the loss of it was painful to Aboriginal people and still causes pain for this loss, to Aboriginal people. How many people actually think wow, it must have been beautiful before colonisation? Gordon talked of how the cutting down of the trees to build a town, houses, then hotels must have angered and shocked the local Aboriginal people so many years ago. And how the commercialisation of the beach as a tourist spot over the generations the Aboriginal people have been shut out of their dreaming, their songlines, their Corroboree site where ceremonies were held, a meeting place named Bondi which is an Aboriginal word meaning.

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b. 1941

oil on canvas

126 x 138 cm; 132.5 x 144.5 cm (frame)

Price on application — enquire

Provenance: The Collection of Gordon and Elaine Syron, NSW
Artwork story: When Gordon painted Bondi - Black Beach, he was in pain about Bondi Beach. He talked about how a long time ago, this beautiful, breathtaking beach belonged only to Aboriginal people and how much the loss of it was painful to Aboriginal people and still causes pain for this loss, to Aboriginal people. How many people actually think wow, it must have been beautiful before colonisation? Gordon talked of how the cutting down of the trees to build a town, houses, then hotels must have angered and shocked the local Aboriginal people so many years ago. And how the commercialisation of the beach as a tourist spot over the generations the Aboriginal people have been shut out of their dreaming, their songlines, their Corroboree site where ceremonies were held, a meeting place named Bondi which is an Aboriginal word meaning.