The bounty story has long been a fascination to me. My paintings in the show are based on fictional ironic conceits of how the media, had they existed in the 1780s, may have reported events. These paintings will depict two events from the Bounty saga as might be viewed through a newspaper tabloid cover page and through a live television news broadcast. The respective events portrayed will be the survivors of the Bounty launch reaching Coupang, Timor, 1789 and the acquittal of William Bligh for loss of His Majesty’s Ship Bounty by the Admiralty in 1790.
First Painting:
Cable News 1790 – Bligh Acquitted, 2007
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
36 inches x 48 inches 91.5 cm x 122 cm
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