Lin Onus

Lin Onus born when Lin Onus Burralung McLintock and William McLintock Onus called (* 4. December 1948 ; † 23. October 1996 ) was a painter , sculptor and graphic artist from Aboriginesstamm the Wiradjuri from Melbourne , Australia .

Early life

His father, Bill Onus, was a political activist and businessman, and his mother, Maud Mary Onus, née Nelson, was a Scottish woman. His father was the founder of the Aboriginal Advancement League and its first president, who died in 1968, a year after the successful year-long campaign for Aboriginal suffrage.

Primarily a community artist and self-taught artist , Onus was initially an engine mechanic before making handicrafts for tourists for his father's Enterprise Novelties company .

Career as an artist

Onus became an important Aboriginal painter, sculptor and graphic artist . His painting Barmah Forest won Canberra's National Aboriginal Heritage Award in 1994.

The works of Onus represent a symbolization of the Aboriginal painting style with the inclusion of artistic elements of contemporary art. In his works there are impressive representations of the red acacia forests of Barmah , the land of his father's ancestors, and he used the rarrk , a painting style based on overhatching, which he learned and was allowed to use after visiting the indigenous settlement of Maningrida .

He paid special attention to the artistic representation.

His best-known work Michael and I are just slipping down to the pub for a minute was published on a postcard and is a reference to his artist colleague Michael Eather . The painting shows a dingo on the back of a stingray , which represents the culture of its parents and is related to the reconciliation of these two peoples. The illustration of the wave is based on the picture The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1832) by the Japanese graphic artist Katsushika Hokusai .

death

Lin Onus died at the age of 48 and was buried on the border of New South Wales and Victoria near the Aboriginal settlement of Cummeragunja .

Most important collection

• Janet Holmes a Court | Holmes a Court Collection

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further reading

• Amanda Ladds, 'The Reconciler' , The Blurb , Issue 27
• Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, Onus, L. , Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, 2001
• Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch and Emily McCulloch Childs, 'Onus, Lin', in McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art (4th Edition) , From Art Editions and The Miegunyah Press, MUP, 2009
• Mary Travers, 'Death of Lin Onus', Art Monthly Australia , no.96, 1996, p. 43
• Humphrey McQueen, 'Art Indigneous - Onus' , accessed July 2007
• Louise Bellamy, 'Onus goes on show' , The Age , February 23, 2005.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The obituary page 1994-: The visual arts 1996 . Retrieved November 15, 2009.
2. ^ Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, Onus, L. , Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, 1994, p. 823
3. ^ The Age article, "Into the Dreamtime", obituary by Adrien Newstead, 1996, on kooriweb.org
4. ↑ Lin and his father William on Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia , Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra 1994
5. ↑ Alan McLeod McCulloch | Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch Childs: Onus, Lin . In: McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art, 4th Edition, From Art Editions and The Miegunyah Press, MUP, 2006, p. 127
6. ↑ Amanda Ladds, 'The Reconciler' ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Blurb , Issue 27 
7. ^ The Holmes à Court Collection . Holmes à Court Gallery. Archived from the original on July 19, 2008. Retrieved January 13, 2011.