Rights of Power 3 (from the Immigrant's Lament Series)
Artist/Maker and role
John Martin (Australian, b.1942, d.2017): Artist
Production date
1989
About this object
John Martin (1942-2017) lived in Allandale, close to Maitland. He also spent time in Berlin and his works were influenced by the landscapes of both regions.
He served as Maitland's Mayor from 1994-1996.
In Joanna Mendelssohn's essay, The Rhythm of the Shadows: The Art of John Martin (p.13), Mendelssohn writes, "[John] became interested in T.S Eliot, whose poetry he remembered well from John Olsen, especially The Wasteland and the Quartets. A conversation with the Aboriginal activist Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) brought him to a realisation that all non-Indigenous Australians are indeed immigrants, and so he felt compelled to paint a series about the flow of peoples and the loss and gain of transition."
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Signed and dated in pencil, within image l.r.
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