Judgement By His Peers
Oil on Canvas
1978
$AUD 900 000 or higher offer
"This painting is my most meaningful work. It is the story of my life. This trial happened to me. I challenged the jury system of Australia. I asked that I be judged by my peers and your peers are your equals. I asked to have some
Aboriginal people on my jury. One lawyer said that I wasn't black enough to be black the other lawyer said I wasn't white enough to be white. They then argued this point in front of me for sometime. Both my parents were Aboriginal. It
was such an insult to me and my family. I was judged by an all-white jury. (If you are a pink fella then according to British law and now Australian law, you are entitled to have a pink person on the jury.) I served a life sentence." -
by Gordon Syron
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