Presented in partnership with Mangkaja Arts, EG Projects presents six new works by John Prince Siddon made whilst he was in COVID-19 lock down in Fitzroy Crossing, 2020.
Prince’s 8 Parables 2020, 240 x 120 cm $14,000
This painting I done will probably be stupid or dumb but anyway, I’m doing it my way to make you understand the meaning of what I have painted. And I’ll be the first artist to who has ever done this before. I have been gathering information from watching the news on TV and start painting them.
One: Stranded Poor Sheep (WA)
Our sheep poor fellow standing on a ship headed to Kuwait. Some got cramped waiting in in Freo, WA. We all felt sad and sorry for them, looking at them on TV news stranded. Man, that’s really sick, stranded, poor sheep.
Two: Two Racisms
Remember Michael Jackson sang doesn’t matter if your black or white? People around the world don’t get that. Maybe it’s just because people hate the colour black? Tell you one thing, I’m proud to be black.
I wanna share this poem written by Michael Angelo
“You may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lines. You may tread me in the dirt but still like dust ill rise.”
Three: Wow Cathy!
Cathy man what can we say! You’re a living back legend, you done us proud. Just like slim dusty sang- you done us proud, you made history in your own way winning the 400m in the Sydney final Olympic games in 2000. And most of all how you carried the land rights flag- you made us all proud when we saw the flag waving on TV. You showed the Nation, everywhere, you did that. That’s why I paint you, you part of this painting, a true black legend.
There you go Cathy.
Four: Black Lives Matter- you know the story.
Five: Bullies
Bullies can kill somebody. Its hurtful, I been bullied many times on message on my phone, it’s really sick. Some people, our kids, can pick on you when your old or when you really good at something. I’m saying this cause arts is my passion and stop bullies.
Six: Save our Whales
I have never seen whales in real life, seen on TV. The pastor read to us when we were kids =, telling us about a good whale who help Jonah in the bible.
Jonah was frightened he thought he was going to die inside the whales belly. It’s the same stories when a baby whales get stuck in the ocean on a shark net crying to be saved and free by us. Remember in the bible the whale saved the man. SoI think back and do something for our whales.
Seven: Pope Francis
We love many Nation who saw it on the news around the world about the biggest fire and its sad and true. The livestock, the koalas, many people lost their lives. Fighting to save one another, thanks Pope for blessing our Nation, Australia.
Eight: Climate Change
This really bothering many nations. I mean look in our outback Australia, even witchetty grubs are dying.
And Uluru, the main rock it’s don’t rain on the rock no more. And the billa bong once used by Jolly Swag man who came by the billabong and the sheep’s don’t drink water- there is no more you see.
John Prince Siddon, August 2020
