Oil on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

A Painting honouring Mabo who was a brave man who fought for his people and this land. Celebrating Australian history and Australian men who stood up for something no one else did. I love that even with everything he went through and the setbacks he had, he still smiled and this painting portrays the happiness that he carried that would have got him through difficult circumstances.

More about the subject:
Edward Koiki Mabo (né Sambo; c. 29 June 1936 – 21 January 1992[1]) was an Indigenous Australian man from the Torres Strait Islands known for his role in campaigning for Indigenous land rights and in a landmark decision of the High Court of Australia that overturned the legal doctrine of terra nullius ("nobody's land") that characterised Australian law with regard to land and title, and officially recognised the rights of Aboriginal Australians to own and use the land on which their families had lived for millennia. Eddie Mabbo is a Torres Strait Islander community leader and land rights campaigner, was born on 29 June 1936 at Las, on Mer, in the Murray group of islands, Queensland, the fourth surviving child of Murray Islands-born parents Robert Zesou Sambo, seaman, and his wife Annie Poipe, née Mabo.