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P.I. 1994

Artwork P.I. this artwork made of Screenprint with collage on sackcloth bonded to board, created in 1994-01-01
Accession No.
1995.182
Date Created
1994
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Contemporary Asian Art
Dimensions A
102 x 142cm
Media Category
Drawing
Secondary Media Category
collage
Medium
Screenprint with collage on sackcloth bonded to board
Place Created
Baguio City
Credit Line
Purchased 1995. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation

Alwin Reamillo resisted the conformity of formal art education and did not complete his bachelor of fine arts, choosing instead to work in graphic design, theatre production and experimental film throughout the 1980s. Having participated in the Artist Regional Exchange (ARX) project in Perth in 1992, Reamillo migrated to Australia in 1995. His diverse cultural experiences feed into his artistic work, which is marked by a collision of images and found objects from popular culture.

These four works (Oh see dobol used, Cora Cora, P.I. and Victory) satirise the history of Spanish, American and Japanese colonisation in the Philippines. The ubiquitous Mickey Mouse representing United States imperialism; banknotes from the Philippines and Japan; scraps of text in English and a Filipino dialect; an engraving of a Spanish galleon; a diagram of a heart; and Catholic deities, jockey for space in these large collage drawings. Using his skills as a graphic designer, Reamillo has organised these hybridised entities into intricately poised, witty and instructive images of colonial experience.
 

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David Griggs’s Frog boy's dissertation into a new karaoke cult 2008, installed for ‘Lies, Magicians and Blind Faith’, March 2023 / Purchased 2008 with funds from the Queensland Government's Gallery of Modern Art Acquisitions Fund and with the assistance of the Melbourne Art Fair Foundation / © Courtesy of the artist, Jan Murphy Gallery Brisbane and Station Gallery Melbourne / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘Lies, Magicians and Blind Faith’

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