POST WAR AUSTRALIA

After the war Boyd turned to the Australian landscape, travelling to Victoria’s Wimmera country and central Australia where, in Alice Springs in 1951 he witnessed the extreme poverty and racism facing the Aboriginal people. Sketches and drawings from this trip resulted in the compelling Love, Marriage, and Death of a Half-caste series (known as the Bride series) of the late 1950s. He later said: “I’d like to feel that through my work there is a possibility of making a contribution to a social progression or enlightenment’’... more.

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