Endangered Species – (Adam Douglas Hill) Previous Next


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Date: 2005

Size: 14 x 175 cm

Museum: Penrith Regional Gallery - Home of the Lewers Bequest (Emu Plains, Australia)

Technique: Sculpture

“Watching an American police drama show in the early 90’s, I saw for the first time the spiked apparatus pulled across the roadway to slow a car being pursued. I imagined the snake developing the same defence. The link was further complimented, because this is the same ‘armoury’ the modern-day Indigenous person has had to develop in protection from racism, prejudice, ignorance and patronising.

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