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Home Front - 2 2021

Artwork Home Front - 2 this artwork made of Hand-painted metal cleaver with enamel paint and lacquer, created in 2021-01-01
Accession No.
2021.352
Date Created
2021
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Contemporary Asian Art
Dimensions A
14 x 30.5cm
Media Category
Painting
Medium
Hand-painted metal cleaver with enamel paint and lacquer
Place Created
Karāchi
Credit Line
Purchased 2021 with funds from an anonymous donor through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation

In the series ‘Home Front’, painted metal cleavers feature idealised mountainous landscapes drawn from postcards, with views of the Himalayas at the border between Pakistan and India. Through these seemingly peaceful scenes, Suleman recognises the underlying reality of ongoing conflict in the region and the sites of border tension and trauma that pervade the landscape and its communities. 
 

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Five miniature landscape paintings made on cleavers, installed on a white gallery wall
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Five miniature landscape paintings made on cleavers, installed on a white gallery wall
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A work on copper depicting silhouettes of people emerging from bamboo shoots. / Lee Paje / The Philippines b.1980 / The stories that weren’t told (detail) 2019 / Oil on copper mounted on wood / Purchased 2021 with funds from Terry and Mary Peabody and Mary-Jeanne Hutchinson through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / Collection: QAGOMA / © Lee Paje

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'Rising Voices' at the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, London, May 2025, guarded by Michael Parekōwhai's Kapa Haka (Whero) 2003, and with glimpses of headdresses by Ken Thaiday Snr / © The artists / Image courtesy and © The V&A, South Kensington

ON TOUR: Rising Voices

May 2026 - Jan 2027

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