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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 39.4 W x 47.2 H x 1.2 D in
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China paid a heavy price for having something another wanted really, really badly. An Elizabethan Collar encircles the throat of an Imperial lion from Beijing’s Forbidden City, this strangulation an echo of Britain’s 19th century aggression towards China, in which the Royal Navy killed thousands in order to legitimise the illegal opium for tea trade. In the process millions were blighted to an addiction that at its peak afflicted almost half China’s population and persisted until the 1950’s. Commonly used after an animal is spayed, this collar further references the tumultuous last century in which China’s potential was neutered time and again. Weakened by foreign invasion, opium and a succession of poor rulers, the Forbidden City’s eunuch administration was expelled and the Emperor removed. Then followed the Japanese occupation, a debilitating civil war, mass starvation during Mao’s Great Leap Forward, mass hysteria in the Cultural Revolution and massacre during the Tiananmen Square uprising. Indeed it is only in the past 2 decades China has managed to reverse the 200 years of strangulation begun when Britain decided it really needed a nice cup of tea.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:39.4 W x 47.2 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:Australia.
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Matthew was featured in BRW as one of Australia's top 50 artists. In the past few years he's won, or been a finalist for, more than 70 major national art awards. He's had 14 solo and 80 group shows. He's painted all his life but allowed himself to be distracted by other careers, working variously as a lecturer, art-director, photographer & writer. His first novel was short-listed for the Vogel Literary Award. He's lived in Australia, the UK, Portugal & Malaysia, and once camped for several months beneath a grand piano. He spent nights under stars in India, under-ground in Bolivia, under surveillance in Burma and under-nourished in London. His scariest moment was having machine-gun shoved in his face during Nepalese anti-monarchy riots, although crashing a para-glider into a forest was also something of a highlight.
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