Shaun Edwards - My Tomorrow. Exhibition of Works on Paper

by Michael Kershaw
(Cairns, Qld., Australia)

It is Coming, Pastel and Crayon on Paper, 75cm x 55cm, $995.00

Canopy Artspace at 124 Grafton Street Cairns is hosting Ngathérruw Kéwvnthvkar - My Tomorrow, an exhibition of works on paper by Shaun Edwards, Ma Wanjibang Pukun, from the
26th March until the 1st May 2010.

The exhibition showcases a new series chronicling narratives where the personal and the customary intersect.

With a dynamic array of colours in consistently bold, near-symmetrical compositions, the artist has drawn on knowledge of his culture to articulate a spirit of optimism.

Motifs abstracted from significant sites and medicinal plants to ancestral beings and intimate objects, repeatedly emphasise a symbiosis of culture and nature, of the personal and the symbolic. They are produced in natural pigments, pastel and crayon on paper.

Shaun belongs to the Kokoberrin language group of the Staaten River in Cape York. His language name is Kalk, meaning freshwater spear. His totems are sour yam - Ma Wanjibang and Pukun, a native grass found in his homeland.