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Janine Combes

The pretence

The pretence

Regular price $350.00 AUD
Regular price Sale price $350.00 AUD
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I like to work with re-purposed objects. I feel that I re-inhabit these abandoned things, giving them a new history, a new story. Here I take a cast-off powder compact, I engrave words into brass which is added to the compact. The words speak about the myth of peaceful settlement. Women were part of this history - they were there, and benefited from land acquisition and the resources gathered.

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