Multiple Modernisms

Twentieth-Century Artistic Modernisms in Global Perspective

Michael Nelson Jagamara and Imants Tillers, Hymn to the Night, 2011-2012, synthetic polymer on 165 canvasboards (Nos. 89763-89927), 277 x 532 cm, private collection. Courtesy of the artists and FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane.

Michael Nelson Jagamara and Imants Tillers, Hymn to the Night, 2011-2012, synthetic polymer on 165 canvasboards (Nos. 89763-89927), 277 x 532 cm, private collection. Courtesy of the artists and FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane.

Ian McLean investigates the transculturation of colonial cultures, particularly as they manifest in Australian visual art. He is currently researching intersections that have occurred between Australian Indigenous and Western artists in historical and contemporary contexts.