AIONA FRANK GAIDAN | 'Sageraw Baydham' Linocut Print Geoff Dixon vinyl-cut on Hahnemühle paper

vinyl-cut on Hahnemühle paper

Kausa (Pandanus) VII

With a stonefish sting the pain comes and throbs when the tide rises

Edmund Laza

linocut on paper

AIONA FRANK GAIDAN | 'Sageraw Baydham' Linocut Print Geoff Dixon vinyl-cut on Hahnemühle paperAiona Frank Gaidan, Sageraw Baydham, 2016, linocut print on paper, 113. 5x200. 2cm (image size), edition of 12 "This print depicts my totem the hammerhead shark. The hammerhead shark is important in our stories of cultural knowledge and is represented in dance. The dancer featured in the work is dancing the shark dance. I learnt this dance as a young boy and this is how I know the stories. During Sageraw Thonar it is hammerhead shark mating season.