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Jason Bates (he/him), Yuin
Black Deaths in Custody, 2025
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
50.5 x 75 x 0.5 cm

This painting is a painting representing Aboriginal deaths in Custody. The larger circles surrounded by grey and blue dots represent the prisons and black dots and lines within represent the individual deaths and their spirits. The grey lines represent the yards in prisons and the different dots and colours within there represent the different races and people in the system. The footprints represent the Aboriginal people being escorted to different prisons, their sporatic splashes of red paint throughout the painting representing the bloodshed.