'Transculturation: Sublime & Surreal Encounters of First Contact in the Antipodes' Cooee Art, Sydney, NSW 2017
Tiernan’s paintings navigate the complex terrain of early colonial visual art history and the interpretation of early colonial encounters in Australia and Oceania by Europeans. Under Tiernan’s investigative gaze, archival histories of colonial encounters are re-contextualized (re-skinned) highlighting ‘the incommensurability’ of two distinctly different cultures that inevitably ended in collision.
#1: Colonial Wallpapers - Mantle of Perception -
180 x 300 cm
SOLD to National Maritime Museum Collection, Sydney
oil on canvas
#2: Pacific Encounters
180 x 300 cm
SOLD to National Maritime Museum Collection, Sydney
oil on canvas
#3: Second Skin - Set of 15 works
30 x 30 cm
SOLD to National Maritime Museum Collection, Sydney
oil on canvas
#4: Warra Warra - Wai
148 x 74 cm
SOLD
oil on canvas
#5: Three Sisters
149 x 75cm
$5,600.00
oil on canvas
#6: Unnamed
148 x 74 cm
$5,600.00
oil on canvas
#7: Unnamed
148 x 74 cm
SOLD
oil on canvas
#8: Port Jackson- Deep Time
162 x 59 cm
$5,600.00
oil on canvas
#9: Rock Engravings - Landform
170 x 79 cm
$5,200.00
oil on canvas
#10: Silk and Nails
120 x 50 cm
SOLD
oil on canvas
#11: Broken spear - Acquisition by Cook
40 x 137 cm
SOLD to National Maritime Museum Collection, Sydney
oil on canvas
#12: Rock Engravings - Dark Side of the Moon
96 x 45 cm
$2,200.00
oil on canvas
#13: Rock Engravings - Rock Face
96 x 45 cm
$2,200.00
oil on canvas
#14: Rock Engravings - Seated Daramulan
96 x 45 cm
$2,200.00
oil on canvas
#15: Lagoon
70 x 35 cm
SOLD
oil on canvas
#16: Postcard Perfect - Native Sports Newcastle
36.0 x 51.0 cm
SOLD
oil on board
#17: Sydney Personalities, In The Limelight
40 x 30 cm
SOLD
oil on canvas
#18: Who’s Pulling The Strings - Native Dignity
40 x 30 cm
SOLD
oil on canvas
#19: Port Jackson – Early Engravings
66 x 25 cm
SOLD
oil on canvas
#20: Presence of Absence - Gweagal Shield Kurnell
51 x 76 cm
SOLD
oil on canvas
#21: Rock Engravings - Embossed
96 x 45 cm
SOLD
oil on canvas
#22: Master Lily
149 x 75 cm
SOLD
oil on canvas
#23: Albert
149 x 75 cm
SOLD
oil on canvas
#24: Tupaia's Sketchbooks - Botany Bay Natives
60 x 179 cm
SOLD
oil on canvas