History Series ,Blue, On beach near Military Hospital Woodstock 1853
1995
Fumage on paper
Signed, dated, edition, titled
Image [25 x 20] Sheet [46,5 x 39] cm
Part of Siopis’s History series, this work overlays the regal profile of a black woman on Thomas Bowler’s 1853 print of the beach near Woodstock’s Military Hospital. Set against a richly patterned blue ground, the collage-like image reworks archival material to reframe a colonial seaside scene.
