Historia, Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop 35 lithographs
According to the book or bible;
Jonah or Jonas is the name given in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh/Old Testament) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BCE. He is the eponymous central figure of the Book of Jonah, in which he is called upon by God to travel to Nineveh and warn its residents of impending divine wrath. Instead, Jonah boards a ship to Tarshish. Caught in a storm, he orders the ship's crew to cast him overboard, whereupon he is swallowed by a giant fish. Three days later, after Jonah agrees to go to Nineveh, the fish vomits him out onto the shore. Jonah successfully convinces the entire city of Nineveh to repent, but waits outside the city in expectation of its destruction. God shields Jonah from the sun with a plant, but later sends a worm to cause it to wither. When Jonah complains of the bitter heat, God rebukes him.
Having taking on the task of producing 35 prints for the Historia project, I started by looking at the historical images that depict Jonah and the so called whale, so much drama, old men and strange looking fish, some reduced to monsters, great images but I decided to explore the notion that just maybe Jonah was a younger man who after being thrown up by the big fish decides to ride on its back complete with the caster oil tree provided by god to shade Jonah and the hungry little worm.
So started with a drawing, transferred to a lithographic stone and produced the 35 images.
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| Drawing |
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| Ready to print |
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| Working the stone |
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| 35 Lithographs |
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| Finished print |
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