Greet death
Artist
McBurnie, Jonathan
Production date
2007
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Object Detail
Title
Greet death
Production date
2007
Medium
ink and correction fluid on paper, staple bound
Measurements
closed: 26 x 17.8 x 0.3 cm
Object type
Interpretive text
Jonathan McBurnie is an artist, writer and cartoonist based in Rockhampton, Australia. Born in 1983, McBurnie began self-publishing comic books at the age ten. He has a PhD from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney (2015) and is the current Director of Rockhampton Museum of Art. McBurnie is a published writer for Eyeline, Catalogue, The Lifted Brow, Huxley, Penthouse Australia, the Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture, and Sneaky, where he was the Visual Arts Editor.
This work was created for an exhibition with fellow Queensland artist Christian Flynn at Metro Arts, Brisbane in 2008. McBurnie and Flynn created a collaborative book project, including works by both artists that were exhibited in the side gallery space under the name ‘Bloody Mongreal’. These works were described by McBurnie as 'iconoclastic visual narratives,' and were responses to the provocation ‘whether in the digital ago pop can still be considered a legitimate avenue for self expression.’ Much imagery in these works were sourced from posters removed from a billboard near McBurnie’s then home in West End, Brisbane.
Artspace Mackay 2023
This work was created for an exhibition with fellow Queensland artist Christian Flynn at Metro Arts, Brisbane in 2008. McBurnie and Flynn created a collaborative book project, including works by both artists that were exhibited in the side gallery space under the name ‘Bloody Mongreal’. These works were described by McBurnie as 'iconoclastic visual narratives,' and were responses to the provocation ‘whether in the digital ago pop can still be considered a legitimate avenue for self expression.’ Much imagery in these works were sourced from posters removed from a billboard near McBurnie’s then home in West End, Brisbane.
Artspace Mackay 2023
Credit line
Mackay Regional Council Art Collection, gift of the artist 2022.
Accession number
2022.23
