Fair Dinkies
Sam Harrison
21 March – 19 April 2025
Image by and courtesy of the artist.
Snowy River Toy Inc. is pleased to present its newest line of toy collectables in celebration of Australia’s rich cultural diversity!
Fair Dinkies is a series of collectable Koalas ironically tasked with representing the vast cultural diversity within Australia.
Simmering beneath the façade of playful innocence, along with promises of equality, safety, and prosperity, is a world of nuanced cultural and political tensions—a friction that keeps its inhabitants suspended in a moral and ethical limbo.
At the exhibition's core, it is a statement that diversity is necessary to create ‘Australian-ness’. As a well meaning commercial product by fictional manufacturers, Snowy River Toy Inc., the Koalas are destined to fail at this task.
Within the frame of the Fair Dinkies store, you are invited to participate in the parody of ‘the great Australian mixing pot’ to explore and question the motivations and mechanics of Australia’s unique form of social conformity.
Sam Harrison is a proud Kamilaroi/Wiradjuri artist working in Meanjin. As a figurative painter combining historical, cultural and contemporary imagery Harrison holds the belief that an artist’s role is to research and understand the morals, motives and circumstances that inform identity. His practice explores the hypocrisies and idiosyncrasies of local, national and global histories to find stories that are worth telling.
@samharrison.art
www.samharrison.art
Fair Dinkies
By Sam Harrison
21 March – 19 April 2025Outer Space
Open Wednesday to Saturday, 10am–5pm
420 Brunswick Street,
Judith Wright Arts Centre,
Fortitude Valley, QLD
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Public Programs
Artist Talk (TBC)
6 - 8PM
Thursday 10 April 2025
Join us for an artist talk by Sam Harrison that will explore the themes of their exhibition Fairk Dinkies and the evolution of the Snowy River Toy Inc. toy collectables.
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