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The Queen & I 2011

Artwork The Queen & I this artwork made of HD video, line animation, 16:9, 11:20 minutes, colour, stereo, created in 2011-01-01
Accession No.
2011.233
Date Created
2011
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Indigenous Australian Art
Edition
ed. unlimited
Media Category
Electronic media
Secondary Media Category
HD video
Medium
HD video, line animation, 16:9, 11:20 minutes, colour, stereo
Place Created
Australia
Credit Line
Commissioned for the exhibition 'Land, Sea and Sky: Contemporary Art of the Torres Strait Islands', with the support of Cairns Indigenous Art Fair. Purchased 2011

Douglas Watkin’s The Queen & I 2011 is a graphic novel–style animation that reconstructs the extraordinary set of circumstances that brought Watkin’s parents together in 1954, when the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II visited Cairns on her Royal Tour. As a documentary filmmaker and storyteller turned artist, Watkin wanted to shed light on a positive and empowering story of a Torres Strait Islander family in the context of mainstream Australian history.

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