Ricky Maynard
Coming home - Portrait of a Distant Land, 2005/08
silver gelatin print on paper, unframed; edition 10
37h x 54w cm (image size); 71h x 79.5w cm (overall, framed size)
Edition of 10 plus 3 artist's proofs
BG996
'I can remember coming here as a boy in old wooden boats to be taught by my grandparents and my parents. I'll be be 57 this year and I have...
"I can remember coming here as a boy in old wooden boats to
be taught by my grandparents and my parents. I'll be be 57 this year and I have missed only one year when my daughter
leanne was born. Mutton birding is my life. To me It's a gathering of our fella's where we sit and yarn we remember
and we honour all of those birders who have gone before us. Sometimes I just stand and look out across these beautiful islands remembering my people and I know I'm home. It makes
me proud to be a strong Tasmanian black man". "This is something that they can never take away from me".
Murray Mansell Big Dog Island, Bass Strait, 2005
be taught by my grandparents and my parents. I'll be be 57 this year and I have missed only one year when my daughter
leanne was born. Mutton birding is my life. To me It's a gathering of our fella's where we sit and yarn we remember
and we honour all of those birders who have gone before us. Sometimes I just stand and look out across these beautiful islands remembering my people and I know I'm home. It makes
me proud to be a strong Tasmanian black man". "This is something that they can never take away from me".
Murray Mansell Big Dog Island, Bass Strait, 2005
Exhibitions
Ricky Maynard - A Survey