item details
NameUntitled
ProductionDaniel Boyd; artist; 2015; Australia
Classificationlithographs, works on paper
Materialspaper, lithographic ink, red ocher
Materials SummaryLithograph, printed from three stones, in red ochre, blue, and black ink; woodcut, printed in black ink from one block on paper
Techniqueslithography
DimensionsApproximate: 760mm (width), 560mm (height)
Registration Number2016-0006-1
Credit lineGift of The Australian War Memorial, 2016
Overview
Daniel Boyd offers an Aboriginal perspective on World War I. His print pays tribute to his great-grandfather, who joined the 11th Australian Light Horse Regiment, which had the most Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island members of any Australian unit.
Boyd used a historical drawing of Magdhaba, a battle site in Egypt and a landscape his great-grandfather may have experienced, as the base of his print. He then added an overlay of black dots.
The dots, which Boyd refers to as ‘lenses’, obscure and change the way the image beneath can be viewed, stressing that history is partial and selective.