Brett Graham
Foreshore Defender, 2008
screenprint on Fabriano Artistico
990 x 700mm
Edition of 25
Foreshore Defender is the appropriation of Pākehā (settler) weaponry and military status symbols, translated into an icon of Māori resistance to settler migration and to the inevitability of land loss....
Foreshore Defender is the appropriation of Pākehā (settler) weaponry and military status symbols, translated into an icon of Māori resistance to settler migration and to the inevitability of land loss. Concerned with legislation created to deny Māori of our right to claim the foreshore and seabed, this work represents the sprit of the Pacific "flying bat" or a state-of-the-art stealth bomber to save what little land remains.