curtin university gallery
presented as part of the Perth International Arts Festival
portraits
alongside in Pursuit of Venus [infected], portraits of two key figures from Emissaries: the Chief Mourner from the Society Islands who moves between worlds, and Joseph Banks, the ambitious naturalist/astronomer who documented the Transit of Venus on Cook’s first voyage, were featured
star gazing
astronomer Joseph Banks
as it would have been
installed in the gallery space was a scale replica of the original wallpaper