{"product_id":"onus-lin-green-and-red-patter-18421","title":"Lin Onus 'Green and Red Pattern with Frog Pattern'","description":"\u003cp\u003eLin Onus, a Yorta Yorta artist of Aboriginal and Scottish descent, represents a singular voice in Australia’s cultural life. Esteemed for his wit, talent and panache, Onus’s work is a negotiation of cultural identity, using both Aboriginal and Western techniques to unsettle easy categorisation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Green and Red Pattern with Frog Pattern’ is a unique screenprint, the fruit of a collaboration between Onus and master printmaker Shaike Snir. The two met at Port Jackson Press Australia in 1989 and over the subsequent years built an intimate rapport, spending their lunch breaks producing experimental works like this.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile Onus’s work traverses the border between figurative and abstract, he was rarely as abstract as is here. Across a black ground, symbolic of his cultural heritage, Onus runs an intricate lattice of green dots and red veins. Clusters of pattern evoke the silhouettes of frogs, a totem animal of his. What can be recognised in these patterns, what associations are drawn? Like ripples, the frogs in this work are traces, a reminder that everything leaves an imprint. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis screenprint is not just beautiful, it is culturally significant – a vestige of artistic collaboration, experimentation and Onus’s sensitive yet compelling eye. He was an artist whose vision was only matched by his activism, writing in 1990 that he hoped to be remembered as a “bridge between cultures, technology and ideas”. With representation across public collections and an OBE, it is undoubtable that he has. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor collectors of important Australian, Aboriginal and contemporary art, ‘Green and Red Pattern with Frog Pattern’ is a unique opportunity. It has an unbroken chain of provenance and is embossed with the Lin Onus Estate Stamp. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/artandcollectors.com\/collections\/lin-onus\"\u003eLin ONUS\u003c\/a\u003e (1948 - 1996)\u003cbr\u003e'Green and Red Pattern with Frog Pattern' 1994\u003cbr\u003escreenprint on paper\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eImage Size\u003c\/i\u003e: 50 x 75 cm \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDimensions\u003c\/i\u003e: 94 x 112 x 2 cm \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSigned\u003c\/i\u003e: Embossed with Lin Onus Estate stamp in lower right hand margin\u003cbr\u003eComes with Letter of Provenance\u003cbr\u003eCondition: \u003cstrong\u003eExcellent\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(c) Lin Onus \/ Copyright Agency\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"small","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46464186941510,"sku":null,"price":9500.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0499\/8229\/files\/onus-lin-green-and-red-patter-18421.jpg?v=1787953679","url":"https:\/\/artandcollectors.com\/products\/onus-lin-green-and-red-patter-18421","provider":"Art and Collectors","version":"1.0","type":"link"}