Published in Overland Issue 243 Winter 2021 · Art Cover art: Anne Barnetson Anne Barnetson Cover Back Read the rest of Overland 243 If you enjoyed this piece, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four brilliant issues for a year Anne Barnetson Anne Barnetson is an illustrator working on unceded Noongar Boodja in Boorloo, Western Australia. She works by hand and is an optimist deep down. More by Anne Barnetson › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 22 October 202622 October 2026 · Art Witnesses across siege: art, resistance and the Gaza Biennale in Sarajevo Tahney Fosdike Against a censored, self-righteous artworld and scattered media landscape, the Gaza Biennale platforms Palestinian self-representation so they may be continually seen. But, as governments fail to protect people, how can these realities move between us without disavowal, evasion or just despair? 15 October 202615 October 2026 · Art The Prize that looked away Mary Lou Pavlovic The Archibald’s presentation turns an artistic relationship into an institutional narrative of friendship and reconciliation, while the formal language of the portrait draws on a racialised visual vocabulary whose politics are largely left unexamined.
