Alan Cruickshank b. 1953

  • Artist (Photographer)
Photographic manipulator, was born in Adelaide, SA. Cruickshank's work has referenced early European photographers such as John William Lindt. His 1997 exhibition "Museum of the Colonial Post Colonial" involved superimposing European faces onto Lindt's historical photographs of Indigenous Tasmanians. He has also been known to alter early European photographs by adding Aboriginal faces, arguably in

Photographic manipulator, was born in Adelaide; works SA and does digital cibachrome prints.

In 1997 he put 19th century European male heads on Lindt 's Aboriginal studio portraits in the exhibition “Museum of the Colonial Post Colonial”, having previously in his more light-hearted ARCANUM (1992) and THE ARCANUM MUSEUM (1995-96) changed historical European photographs by adding Aboriginal faces here and there, possibly to suggest an Aboriginal authority equal to a European one in the early years of European settlement.

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Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011