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The Unfinished Masterpiece of Dave Sands is the story of Indigenous boxer Dave Sands (1926-1952), a Dunghutti man who came from humble beginnings to become one of Australia's greatest ever, albeit unrecognised, sportsman. Sands' life, what happened inside as well as outside the ring, will be told through the use of archival footage, recreations as well as the commencement and completion of a portrait of Sands by renowned artist Miriam Cabello. Dave Sands (then by the surname Ritchie) was one of eight in a boxing family and had his first professional fight at the age of 15. At which point, he took the name Sands, after a training guard who allowed them to travel for free. He went on to marry his childhood sweetheart and become a father; win the Australian middleweight title at age 20; beat Jack Johnson to win the light heavyweight title; travelled to England to win the British Empire middleweight title and win the Australian heavyweight title. Dave held all three national titles at different weights simultaneously – an achievement unprecedented in boxing.
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
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Miriam Cabello is a Chilean-Australian interdisciplinary artist, curator, and academic educator, based in Sydney. Her studio practice explores Mythology, questioning, "Where is Hercules (Heracles)? What does it mean to be Hercules in the 21st century?" She offers a host of unique artistic responses to this ambitious question. Her new multi-layered works feature some of the finest figurative contemporary paintings of universal heroes, from the celebrated to the conspicuous, from athletes to activists. To reveal and merge incompatible ideas from masculinity and feminism in contemporary art. Western Mythology juxtaposed with Meso-American myths. Allegories of Pugilism (boxing) aim to expound ideas and unearth the exploits of great heroes fighting against superhuman odds, quests and trials and the eternal fight against the powers of darkness and adversity. Hercules finds its origins in Cabello's 2011 exhibition at the DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, selected to travel to the National Art Museum of Sport, USA, titled 'Australian Aboriginal Boxing Legends'. Highlighting Lionel Rose, American Sports Illustrated wrote of his 1968 fight in Tokyo, "across Australia, that night people clung to radios as if the ringside announcer were Winston Churchill … women wept over Lionel Rose and men shouted…. Lionel Rose was Hercules, Charles Lindbergh and the Messiah all rolled into one". Miriam's creative process and the interlocking themes she has developed throughout her life and art practice are grounded on the Old Masters' historical oil painting techniques, iconography, colour symbolism and the Latin American art canon. Her innovative oil painting technique bridges the baroque and post-modern understanding of light, which affects perception. She founded ©Spectral Kinetic Realism after 20 years of academic research and creative exploration.
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