NGV Limited Edition - Rubii Red, White Australia has a Blak History

Screenprint
Approximately A2 in size

Red’s new work White Australia has a Blak history, 2022, commissioned for Melbourne Now as part of the Print Portfolio project, was created in response to Invasion Day (aka Australia Day). The design comes from a hand-painted sign that Red made for an Invasion Day rally in 2017 – which she has digitally redrawn and printed with Troppo Print Studio in Coburg – demonstrating the confluence of art and activism that often characterises her work. Summoning the iconic slogan that appeared on Mandandanji artist Laurie Nilson’s NAIDOC week poster in 1987, Red draws subtle connections between First Nations activism across the intervening decades, and highlights Australia’s enduring reluctance to meaningfully acknowledge First Nations people and the dispossession at the heart of Australian history. The play on words is not only a celebration of First Nations strength, continuity and sovereignty, but also an allusion to the shadowed history of colonial violence since invasion. For Red, this piece is a gentle reminder to the nation’s citizens that the land they celebrate on always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.

Rubii Red White Australia has a Blak history 2022; screenprint, ed. 1/15. Commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2022
© Rubii Red. Printed by Sarah Murphy, Troppo Print Studio

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