This is an Augustus Earle painting of Mount York at the top of the Blue Mountains, showing the road being built using chained convicts,

This isn’t just a party, it’s a party about colonising and the total disregard of whose land they are on.

I am fascinated by how our thoughts are formed by movies and images. 1950s & 60s American movies formed our ideas about American life as do these paintings of early colonial life in Australia, So I stretch and reimagine these images, I change the text and as in the telling of histories from one perspective, I play with the narrative, and ask what was the real truth?

I’m very disturbed by the use of indigenous people as slaves by the colonials.

In this work again I show an Aboriginal man in chains and one flattening the ground, the idea of an Aboriginal man who, himself previously and his ancestors for however many thousands of years have lived on and with the land are now not only forced into servitude but into flattening the ground with a roller, the irony of this is not funny it is downright wrong.

And the joyous celebrating of the victory is perverse.