Earlier this year Australian artist and ceramist Penny Byrne asked her social media followers to donate to her Great Blue and White Figurine Hunt. She received 80 figurines which she has clad in the orange life jackets that have become synonymous with refugees and the life-threatening journeys they have taken.
Adrift in an assortment of porcelain antique household serving plates, gravy boats, cups, and bowls, (delicate vessels that reflect the determination to find any means necessary to cross seas), the figures are stranded around the gallery in various states of safety. The crudely constructed bright orange rings that hang around the necks of the figurines are clumsily constructed, a statement from Penny on the worrying trend of refugees being given fake or faulty life jackets.
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