Lot 45

The Estate of Larry Rawling, Melbourne

Peace, The Man & Hope. Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 5 July – 7 August 2005 (another example)
Brook Andrew - Hope & Peace, Stills Gallery, Sydney, 3 August - 3 September 2005 (another example)
Eye to Eye, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 4 April – 23 June 2007 (another example)
The Right to Offend is Sacred, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 3 March - 4 June 2017 (another example)
Brook Andrew - Hope, Peace, and Paradise, Geelong Gallery, Victoria, 16 July - 23 October 2022 (another example)

Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; and Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria.

"Elements of Wiradjuri visual and spoken language intertwine to empower Andrew's Hope & Peace series of screenprints. Here slick advertising brands of cigarette packaging, chewing tobacco and chewing gum explode incongruously out of Wiradjuri texts and optical geometry in a dynamic echo of Russian Constructivism. The series unpacks contemporary global advertising by disclosing the way in which capitalist multinational corporations seduce consumers into buying the ultimate in First World consumer goods—cigarettes—through disingenuous trademarks such as ‘Peace & Hope' and ‘Frontier Lights'. Andrew also teases out the repercussions of brand names, including BlackBlack (high technical excellent flavour) and Black & White Special Cut, which serve to commercialise and glamorise at the same time as obfuscating difference." (Geelong Gallery, Victoria)

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