Crown Land

Framed 167cm x 85.5cm

Alongside the Derwent River near Bushy Park is this unusual rise with rocks on top. It’s a pastoral scene including several characters and instruments which participate in contemporary Tasmania’s agriculture industry including the emblematic ghost of the extinct thylacine.

Though Australia is a constitutional monarchy the crowned hillock with it’s heavy granite rocks rising upward suggests the true monarch of this country continues to reference the most ancient origins of this place.