Place made
Launceston, Cape Barren Island & Flinders Island, lutruwita (Tasmania) (printed, Sydney)
Medium
gelatin-silver photograph
State
ed. 2/10
Dimensions
45.0 x 45.0 cm (image)
60.5 x 60.5 cm (sheet)
Credit line
Acquisition through Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art supported by BHP 2017
Accession number
20173Ph15
Signature and date
Not signed. Not dated.
Media category
Photograph
Collection area
Australian photographs - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Copyright
© Ricky Maynard/Copyright Agency
  • Direct, proud and resilient are the faces of the twelve men who are the subjects

    of Ricky Maynard’s series of black-and-white portraits entitled Saddened Were the Hearts of Many Men. The photographs are of Aboriginal men from Maynard’s home of Flinders Island and nearby Cape Barren Island, Tasmania. Personal and intimate, the photographs build on pre-existing relationships, with a shared history between the men and the artist reflected in the portraits. 

     

    By using photography as a tool to

    effect social change, Maynard has crafted this series of photographic portraits to demonstrate how Tasmanian Aboriginal men are impacted by systemic and historic disempowerment. Resonating with resilience, this body of work exposes an enduring spirit in each of the men, despite the shared burden of a brutal history. As Ricky Maynard writes: ‘My work must carry messages of survival. I don’t see these men as victims of history. What I do see is the indomitable spirit of Aboriginal people’.

     

    Gloria Strzelecki, Associate Curator of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art

  • Tarnanthi - Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 13 October 2017 – 28 January 2018
  • [Book] AGSA 500.
  • Ricky Maynard 1953

    Ambrose

    2015; printed 2017
    gelatin-silver photograph
    Accession no: 20173Ph8
  • Ricky Maynard 1953

    Clyde

    2015; printed 2017
    gelatin-silver photograph
    Accession no: 20173Ph6
  • Ricky Maynard 1953

    Darrell

    2015; printed 2017
    gelatin-silver photograph
    Accession no: 20173Ph7
  • Ricky Maynard 1953

    Gig

    2015; printed 2017
    gelatin-silver photograph
    Accession no: 20173Ph10
  • Ricky Maynard 1953

    Jamie

    2015; printed 2017
    gelatin-silver photograph
    Accession no: 20173Ph5
  • Ricky Maynard 1953

    Kerry

    2015; printed 2017
    gelatin-silver photograph
    Accession no: 20173Ph9
  • Ricky Maynard 1953

    Leigh

    2015; printed 2017
    gelatin-silver photograph
    Accession no: 20173Ph4
  • Ricky Maynard 1953

    Mick

    2015; printed 2017
    gelatin-silver photograph
    Accession no: 20173Ph11
  • Ricky Maynard 1953

    Murray

    2015; printed 2017
    gelatin-silver photograph
    Accession no: 20173Ph13
  • Ricky Maynard 1953

    Philip

    2015; printed 2017
    gelatin-silver photograph
    Accession no: 20173Ph12
  • Ricky Maynard 1953

    Ronnie

    2015; printed 2017
    gelatin-silver photograph
    Accession no: 20173Ph14
  • Ricky Maynard 1953

    Sean

    2015; printed 2017
    gelatin-silver photograph
    Accession no: 20173Ph15