ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
n “Treasure Island,” co-curators Isobel Parker Philip and Erin (2006), where he portrayed Captain James Cook at the 1770 landing of the in Botany Bay as an eye-patch-wearing invader. Known today for his application across the painted surface of translucent dots—what he calls “lenses”—that both contain and obscure visual information, Boyd explodes the anthropological gaze traced through historical photographs and contemporary imagery of Indigenous Australia.