Darwin Easter Art Exhibition Could Offend
Thursday April 9, 2009
Controversy is set to spark as two paintings with an Aboriginal Jesus will be displayed at a Darwin Easter art exhibition this week.
The first painting is an Indigenous style dot painting by Ngukurr artist Alan Joshua, features a black and bearded man bearing the cross with a crowd in the background.
According to the Northern Territory Times, it gained a lot of interest at the exhibition's opening and was the first to sell.
The second painting, by Rod Moss of Alice Springs, sees three Indigenous people gathered around another man wrapped in a shroud, dying against a Central Australia backdrop.
Framed gallery owner Anne Phelan didn't believe the paintings were controversial.
"I think every culture imagines Christ as one of their own," she told the Northern Territory News in Darwin, Australia.
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