My favourite work: Fruit Bats by Lin Onus

Born in Melbourne, Lin Onus is a Scottish-Aboriginal artist who created this art sculpture in 1991. There is two typically Australian things, the hills-hoist and the fruits bats, put together. The hills-hoist represents the European culture and influence and the fruit bats, loud and annoying, represents the Aboriginal culture.  The fruit bats are made in fibreglass, they all seem similar but each of them are decorated with a different rarrk (crosshatching), hanging on a hills-hoist clothes line. That mean each of these bat is unique even they look similar.  On the ground there is bat dropping represented by wooden disks flower-like motifs which are decorated with dots painting.

I especially like this artwork because it represents the mixture of two culture, as himself, Lin Onus is from two different culture, Scottish and Aboriginal. And in Australia most of migrants have now two culture, one from their original country and another now by the fact that they life in Australia.