JONATHAN MCBURNIE | 'Floodland' | Illustrated book Moa Island The yam is hairy and

The yam is hairy and makes good eating

: Pormpuraaw Arts & Cultural Centre Inc

grasping the neck and tail end of the animal

45 x 42 cm

traditional motifs and the natural carving ability of the Islanders

JONATHAN MCBURNIE | 'Floodland' | Illustrated book Moa Island The yam is hairy andFLOODLAND brings together a series of personal and natural disasters featured in illustrations and comics by Jonathan McBurnie. Beginning with the protagonists (referred to as the King of Shitty or King of Nails) chronic illness, it relates a long period of bizarre artistic practices, awkward art school relationships, the brutal reality of the nine to five grind, and the transition between emerging artist and submerging artist, and culminates in the