Jonathan Jones
untitled [heads or tails]

'Among the wealth of aboriginal [sic] relics found in New South Wales, the carve trees constitute a most interesting group. They have formed the subject of innumerable notes and photographs in newspapers and magazines...'

Frederick D McCarthy, in The Australian Museum Magazine, vol. 7, no. 5, June-Aug 1940, pp. 161-166.

'I believe everything to be more of less an abstraction. The way we as human beings experience the world we live in is through the senses. The eyes 'see' the works upside down on the lens of the eye, this information is electrochemically transferred to the brain where it is interpreted by comparing what we 'see' with previous experiences. Language here is an important factor in interpreting what we 'see'.'

Gordon Bennett in Gordon Bennett, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, 2007.