After Golden Summer / Alex Lundy

PXX 121

fonds

November 2019

Graphic Materials, Prints

9675877

2 prints - screen prints - 40 x 65 cm

Alexandra Lundy Wason is a Canberra-based artist who graduated from the Australian National University in 2017 with Honours in Printmedia and Drawing. She has won various awards and prizes, including the Megalo Print Studio Residency in 2017. Her works have been exhibited throughout Canberra, and she is the Screen Studio Manager of the Megalo Print Studio as at 2019.

Source:
Alex Lundy. Accessed 29 February 2024. https://alexlundy.net/

The prints were displayed around the Canberra CBD in January 2020 to raise awareness and encourage donation to the NSW Rural Fire Service.

2 duplicate prints "After Golden Summer" by Alex Lundy, created in November 2019 in response to the bushfire emergency in the Braidwood region of New South Wales. The work subverts the 1899 painting "Golden Summer, Eaglemont" by Arthur Streeton by reimagining his depiction of an idyllic rural scene into one of disaster, including two firefighters, a helicopter and the skeleton of a dead animal. Featured as an inscription on verso is a quote from Greg Mullins, former NSW Fire and Rescue Chief, 2019: "Weather records have been broken in terms of fire danger and we’re not even into summer. So… we must do something about climate action."

In copyright:
Copyright holder:: Alex Lundy
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

On the lower left corner on verso are details on how to donate to the NSW Rural Fire Service. On the lower right corner on verso: "Arthur Streeton (1867-1943) Golden Summer, Eaglemont 1889, oil on canvas, 813 x 1526 w mm. National Gallery of Australia collection, accession number: NGA 95.604 ; Hand printed at Megalo Print Studio 2019".