Acrylic on wood

Signed on the back.

This artwork comes with an external frame

I bought the original painting Darcy Doyle 'Budding Socceroos' at an op shop for $2

The original painting seems to me to give a glossed view of Australian outback, one I am sure other artists have also got frustrated with.

I painted over it, the painting itself is full of meaning behind is gold, the represent the gold rush and the damage it represents to the land. In the corner is in fluro pink a rifle representing the very real threat posed to the native people and wildlife by the settlers. I represent aboriginal iconography and animals and plants in ochre to show thousands of years of native settlement underneath the land. There is a tractor and its impact on the land and finally a skinned rabbit hanging, showing the realities of rural life as it really is the damage of rabbits and of the animal itself and its own wellbeing as being introduced.

Its the first time I have started to really put some meaning in my paintings after a long time, it took a bit of time to think of the whole concept