Candy Coated

Abstract

Beetson’s Candy Coated is made from materials taken from toys and references the possum and kangaroo skin cloaks worn by Indigenous people from the east coast of Australia. The cloak critiques the hyper consumeristic habits of colonial markets and draws connection to the overt consumption of Australia through invasion. In the past 10 years, Indigenous Artists have been repatriating possum skin cloak making. However, there are very few Contemporary responses to the Cloaks, This work has about as contemporary response to the more traditional based cloaks.