WORKS BY LEADING ABORIGINAL, TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS AND WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS

Syd Bruce SHORT JOE_Red & yellow bat fish_Australian Aboriginal Art

N°: 3422

Artist: Syd Bruce SHORT JOE

Title: Red & yellow bat fish

Art : Aboriginal

Community: Pormpuraaw Art & Culture

Dimensions: L: 96 x H: 82 x P: 25 cm

Date: 2017

Medium: Ghostnet (recycled fishing net), rope and twine
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The ghostnet sculptures are made from the scraps of drifting fishing nets, lost or abandoned by trawlers.

The Australian artists decided to create sculptures from this debris in order to alert the general public to the catastrophic consequences caused by this pollution, not only on the marine natural environment but also on the culture of these people of the sea.


		Some references: Musée du Quai Branly, Musée des Confluences à Lyon, Musée d'Art Contemporain les Abattoirs à Toulouse, Musée des Arts d’Afrique et d’Asie de Vichy, Musée de la Musique, Museum d'histoire naturelle de Lille, Musée de Rochefort, Fondation Electricité de France, Fondation Colas, Banque Dexia ... We are members of the Chambre Nationale des Experts Spécialisés en Objets d'Art et de Collection (C.N.E.S.)* We are members of the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d'Art *National French Chamber of experts specialized in artworks