Collie Art Prize 2018: Who’d have thought my triptych ‘Bombshell’ about young, white, fashionable terrorists would make the finalists’ show?
Bombshell 1 to 3, Acrylic on canvas x 3, 10 x12"s. Carl Gopalkrishnan 2018
Bombshell 1 to 3, Acrylic on canvas x 3, 10 x12"s. Carl Gopalkrishnan 2018 final
Wonderful to be shortlisted for the Collie Art Prize in WA. The theme of identity has inspired the 40 finalists. At the same time it's so hard with Dad's health declining, we are all rather worn out. A trip to the countryside we decided would do us good. I will be attending the opening with friends and enjoying being back in regional WA and all its beauty and character.
The exhibition is on show 10am-4pm 3 March until 15 April 2018. My painting is entitled Bombshells 1-3 and is about one year of my life in Melbourne “2015”, when I consulted with multicultural families about youth radicalisation. There was so much emphasis on Muslim youth, while youths attracted to the far right were ignored. This was the era when the Alt-Right was taking off. So ideas as such as hate couture and the accessing of memory and identity in a globalised and interconnected world and their appeal to white kids formed the core of these paintings.
View these paintings in Shadow Dancing Room 2
