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Abbotsleigh
Darug Country
Song of Ceylon: The Imperial Marketplace
Printmaking
Lino multi-block print
Song of Ceylon: the Imperial Marketplace references the 1934 documentary, Song of Ceylon, produced by the British-owned Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board. This was one of the earliest commercial tourism endeavours in Sri Lanka. The Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board was established to promote and romanticise Ceylon as a tropical paradise, with the purpose of exercising British power and increasing profits. The idealised imagery it used to commercially market Sri Lanka neglected the harsh realities and systemic mistreatment endured by the working population under colonial governance.
My artmaking practice has been influenced by the study and interpretation of traditional Sri Lankan photography.
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