Australian artist
Denyse Gibbs
Digital Collagism
I
was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1949
and currently live and work in Sydney.
Having exhibited extensively in Aus-
tralia, Asia, Europe and the Americas, my
work is represented world wide in National,
Corporate and Private Collections.
My work has consistently challenged pre-
conceived ways of viewing and traditional
perception recurrently using a literary ap-
proach of meticulously combining fact and
fiction.
The work I have submitted for publication,
begun in 2016, is part of a Series which is a work
in progress, entitled “The Unshared Continent.” The
large scale digital collagist prints, in limited editions,
present visual reflections on the period and practice
of transportation in the founding of Australia in 1788
until 1868 and its subsequent human and social
implications, when approximately 162,000 convicts
were transported from Britain to the various Austra-
lia penal colonies. The work examines French rivalry
in the quest for the new colony and mutinies at sea.
Footnote: “The Act of Transportation” to Australia
by the British Government began when transport-
ing felons to the
American colo-
nies in the late
1700s declined
with the move
towards Ameri-
can
indepen-
dence, and as a
consequence an
alternative site
was needed.
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