PAUL BONG | 'Subject 1880' | 2026 | Unique state/ hand coloured intaglio and chine collee print/ 31 plates | H 1600 x W 995 mm Green such as identifying the tides

such as identifying the tides which bring fish

The dancing gear is made of board

A vacancy opened on a cattle property on the mainland at Kamilaroy and I was sent there to work as a house servant for 3 years before I returned to Mornington Island

Paper size: 390 x 495mm

FLASH BLAK | ‘White Plastic Discs’- pink / green | huggie hoops | recycled melted plastic + pen | 5 (d) cm

PAUL BONG | 'Subject 1880' | 2026 | Unique state/ hand coloured intaglio and chine collee print/ 31 plates | H 1600 x W 995 mm Green such as identifying the tidesSubject 1880 recalls the period when Aboriginal people across the rainforest regions of Far North Queensland were documented through colonial systems that reduced human beings to subjects, records and numbers. Families who had cared for Country over countless generations suddenly found themselves written into another people's history while their own voices were systematically erased. In part, Subject 1880 is an attempt to reconstruct the young Lani