The 2020 Mosman Art Prize winning painting by Salote Tawale touches on themes of ancestral history, memory, transmission, migration, displacement, language and culture. ...
‘Cartoons offer such a cross-section of human psychology – love and revenge, violence and propaganda, joy and anxiety. They capture the zeitgeist of then, now, and what’s to come,’ describes artist Philjames....
Philjames paints in oil on vintage offset lithographs and makes ceramic sculptures. As if in a cry of ‘off with their heads!’ the artist gives historical figures a facelift applying cartoon masks which change and challenge the agency of the image....