Courtney Dickson
“They killed a Mockingbird”
Oil paint and collage on canvas
This work was inspired by Harper Lee’s canon piece ‘To kill a
Mockingbird’. The reader is told that killing a Mockingbird is sinful, as the
Mockingbird is innocent of any crimes and only intends to share its’ beautiful
music with others. I also chose to include the silhouette of an Indigenous
Australian man and I collaged pages from Oodgeroo Noouccal’s poem ‘We are
going’ to draw a link between the issues of Racism and Inequality that exist in
both Nation’s histories. The symbolism is both powerful yet beautiful and I
hope that viewers can appreciate the narrative that this combination of stories
has created.
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