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Paul Ryan Welcome to Wollongong

oil on linen

Governor Arthur Phillip arrives in Wollongong. For his first visit he comes as a black-and-white minstrel. Those Wollongong natives, they love a good joke. Strangely nobody seems to be laughing. This work asks questions. It does not provide answers.

Paul Ryan, 2012