Tomas O’Meara
Centrelink dollars, 2019
Crayon on paper
27 x 22cm (includes frame)
$110
The work comes from a series of drawings based off the cultural shock of moving to France followed by the cultural shock of returning back to Tasmania changed. Out of the 52 drawings this ones shows the relief of receiving Centrelink which allowed guilt free spending on my arts. The series of work is called souvenirs, the French word for memory, playing with the materiality of what the drawings are on (note paper from the bar job that I took orders on) while depicting my memories. My souvenirs.