SIMON GENDENEW WORKS ON CANVAS 2013

bride price I redi now | today’s bride price, 2013acrylic on canvas980 x 1150mm

Australian soilders killed in Afganastan, 2013acrylic on canvas

980 x 1130mm

5 pela ami bilong Australia I dai long Afganistan tupla helicopter kras na 3 pla ol ami tanim na sutin al Kidai

5 Australian soldiers die in Afghanistan two helicopters crash and the Army returns to shoot at Al Queda

welcome home Australian Olympic team, 2013acrylic on canvas990 x 1150mm

SOLD

Australian prime minister/ opesein leader I welkamin al Olympic teamThe Australian Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition welcome home the Australian Olympic team

taim nogut long life blong mi | a bad time in my life, 2013acrylic on canvas

980 x 1120mm SOLD

tuplameri bilong mi pait na narapla kapsatim olgeta paint blong mi na kisim taim strettwo of my wives fight and another one upsets all my paints

Bali bombing, 2013acrylic on canvas990 x 1120mm

long 10-12-2002 long Bali bom pa drop n kilim 202 manmerion 10-12-2002 a bomb exploded in Bali killing 202 men and woman.

Anti Islam fiery film protest, 2013acrylic on canvas

980 x 1250mm

USA mas rausim displa filmUSA must destroy this film

my life, 2013acrylic on canvas970 x 1050mm

SOLD

Gillard returns home to grieve, 2013acrylic on canvas

990 x 1160 SOLD

Australian Priminister Ms Julia Gillard istap long Russia na kisim telephone olsem papa bilong em dai. Em lusim wok kisim balus na kam bek long ples long em Adelaide Australia.

Australian Prime Minister Ms Julia Gillard was in Russia when she got a telephone call to say her father had died. She stopped her visit and caught a plane back to their home in

Adelaide, Australia.

bride Price Bipo/Nau | bride price before/now, 2013acrylic on canvas1180 x 1020mm

New Pope, 2013acrylic on canvas

980 x 1150mm SOLD

Catholic church Pope Benedict i resign long wok. Nuple Pope Francis i kisim plesThe Catholic Church’s Pope Benedict resigns. Pope Francis is the new Pope

successful launch sparks street dance, 2013acrylic on canvas980 x 1160mm

North Koreans dans long streets long Pyongyana long hamamasim country first satellite I go long space North Koreans dance in the streets of Pyongyang at the first successful launch of a satellite into space.

refugees not wanted, 2013acrylic on canvas

990 x 1260mmRESERVED

Australia I noken larim ol refugees I kam insait long Australia bikos ol trabel lainAustralia won’t let refugees into the country because they cause trouble

Rabaul volcano eruption, 2013acrylic on canvas960 x 1150mm SOLD

Rabaul volcano I pairap na ol duk duk i ran away na displa helicoptai i kari ol disaster na emergency wok lain igo lukluk roun long Rabaul PNG The Rabaul volcano erupts and the duk duk run away. The helicopter doing all the disaster and emergency work flies around Rabaul looking.

Planes crash into the Twin Towers on September 11 2001, 2012acrylic on canvas1070 x 1200mm

Long Libya ol kilim Carnol Gaddafi | , 2012acrylic on cloth900 x 1010mm

Long Libya ol kilim Carnol Gadaffi na pikinini boy blong em ol i kalbusim emIn Libya, they kill Colonel Gaddafi and put his son in jail.

PNG Bakarap, 2012acrylic on cloth930 x 1100mm

PNG Bakarap. Mining na Forest Industry bakrap long ol Papa Graun.1. Bush i bakrap na ol pisin paradies i ranaway kainkain anumal long bush i ran away.2. Ol fish dai long liklik wara. Ol papa graun i nogat enough graun long wokim garden

na haus ol sindaun wan.3.Government kisim bikpela. Company kisim bikpela.

4. Papa graun nogat na ol sindaun wantaim wari na complain istap.PNG destroyed. Mining and Forestry Industry comes and destroys Papa Ground (our

land).1.The forest is destroyed and the bird of paradise runs away and all kinds of animals of

the forest run away.2. Fish die in the stream. Papa Ground hasn’t enough land for gardens or houses and

we are all worried.3. Government gets a lot. Company gets a lot.

4. Papa Ground gets nothing and we are all worried and say/complain stop.

SIMON GENDE | ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My name is Simon Gende. I was born on the 17th of September, 1969. I was born in the village called Gere in the Gembogl district, Simbu province, Papua New Guinea. My Language is Kuman. I am married with three (3) wives and twelve (12) children and have 24 pigs and also I’m a village leader.

I start doing painting in 1989. I don’t get any training but I just paint on what I think. Most of my ideas I get from famous late Matias Kauage founder of the contemporary arts in PNG.

In PNG we don’t have any gallery only one in Port Moresby but I live in the village so I sell my paintings during show events, sometimes when tourist boat comes to Madang and Lae and most of my time in front of Bird of Paradise Hotel in Goroka.

I don’t have special brushes I just buy them from the school supplies shop and when they are old I throw them away.

Most of my paintings are about big new stories in the world because most of people like to buy them because they want to keep the stories of what they heard over the news. It’s something like keeping history on the painting.

Hope you get me clear.

All the works are for sale through the Damien Minton Gallery.Please contact: E: art@damienmintongallery.comT: 02 9699 7551