The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Assemblage comprised of a museum stand with eight perspex boxes containing prints, photographs, paintings and objects. It relates to the horrors of war in general and to the Vietnam War in particular. There is a companion piece to this assemblage in the Memorial's collection.
At the time Museum piece no. 1 and Museum piece no. 2 were created, Lynn Collins was living in Adelaide and lecturing at a teacher's college in Fine Arts. He had been travelling overseas for some months prior to that.
The Adelaide arts community was very politically active at the time. Also on the scene were Mandy Martin, Ann Newmarch and Robert Boynes, among other artists in the Progressive Art Movement. Many art students gathered around Professor Brian Medland who founded a course at Flinders University called 'Politics and Art'.
With these works, Lynn Collins was trying make an artwork that was protest art, and that was visual, timely, progressive but also alluring.
-Information from conversation with Lynn Collins 15/03/2011.
Assemblage comprised of a museum stand with eight perspex boxes containing prints, photographs, paintings and objects. It relates to the horrors of war in general and to the Vietnam War in particular.
Within a perspex box with a hessian covered board base: A painting on board of two women's legs with French text that could be roughly translated to red "They are violent with their legs and placement
Within a perspex box with a hessian covered board base: A stretched square canvas with a painted image of three bodies in a trough, and a painted vase of flowers superimposed over the image, with many
Within a perspex box with a hessian covered board base: A painting on a board depicting a naked man and woman behind a black bush. The image is bordered by painted borders of lines and patterns and sp
Within a perspex box with a hessian covered board base: A painting on a thin piece of plywood of people on three escalators running in different diagonal directions, with a floral background. The pain
Cracked mirror fragments stuck to a painted wooden panel inside a perspex box with a hessian base. The mirror fragments on a black painted panel have a border of pink paint, which is bordered by crush