2002

Geelong Gallery acquired a second major work by Chilean-born Australian artist Juan Davila in 2002. Following the acquisition of the large-scale painting A bush burial in 2001, the artist gifted a second interpretation of Frederick McCubbin’s A bush burial (1890) to Geelong Gallery’s permanent collection. 

Davila’s two works depict the same scene from different viewpoints. In each, he reframes the pioneering narrative of McCubbin’s earlier work, to comment on social diversity and Australia’s complex political environment (particularly in relation to refugees).