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Boy by Noel Counihan

Boy by Noel Counihan
Drawing
© 2001 Patricia Counihan
Not to be reproduced without written permission

In his vehement drawing Boy, Noel Counihan depicts Australian conscripts in the Vietnam war as indistinguishably oppressors and victims. The potent body and aggressively phallic head contrast with a boyish face encased in what the artist recognised as the "universal helmet" symptomatic of globalisation's repression of dissent. --