Representational art depicts the artist's personal perspective of the truth in the real world. Daniel Boyd is a representational artist that challenges the history of the colonisation of Australia and the overlooked Indigenous populations perspective. Boyd’s painting “We Call Them Pirates Out Here” (2006) appropriates Emmanuel Phillips Fox’s “The Landing of Captain Cook at Botany Bay, 1770” (1902) interpreting the monumental moment of the early European colonists as pirates that invaded the Indigenous Australians, rather than the heroes that discovered an unknown land. Matt Mullican is a representation artist that deciphers a new world in the subconscious mind, categorised by symbols and colours that correspond to a stage of judgement. In an evolutionary model designed for over 50 years, “Untitled, City Plan (Based on Overall Chart)” (1989) is an early example of Mullican’s representation of questioning the structure of the real world and interpreting the relationship between a subject and the object in an uncharted region of the mind. …show more content…
Boyd’s affiliation with his Indigenous heritage evokes an attempt to redeem history. Boyd challenges the opposition between the history of Australian colonisation, the law of Terra Nullius, and the discarded and overlooked culture and history of the Indigenous populations. Furthermore, questioning the definition of history and the distorted collective memory and documentation. Boyd brings to attention that the record of Australia’s origin is corrupted and romanticised by the early European settlers that is sustained to be nurtured in modern society. Boyd practices the concept of an Indigenous resistance to address the forgotten perspective on the subjective circumstances of the