Darren Siwes (born 1968)

THEY WERE PLAYING MIRROR, 2006

from the series MUM I WANT TO BE BROWN

Cibachrome photograph

120.0 x 100.0 cm (image)
127.0 x 107.0 cm (frame)

edition: 3/8
signed on label verso

Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide (label attached verso)
Corrigan Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in June 2006
on long-term loan to the University of Technology, Sydney, September 2006 – September 2009; June 2013 – November 2020

Mum I Want to be Brown, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, 31 May – 25 June 2006
Mum I Want to be Brown, Magnanmetz, New York in association with Greenaway Art Gallery, 3 January – 9 February 2008 (another example)
Mum I Want to be Brown, Turner Galleries, Perth, 11 April – 10 May 2008 (another example)

Riphagen, M., ‘Dialogue with Rembrandt’, Artlink, Adelaide, Issue 31, No. 2, June 2011, p.57 (illus. another example)
Shuster, R., ‘Photographer Darren Siwes’s Little Brown Boogey Man’, The Village Voice, 8 January 2008 (illus. another example)

Another example of this photograph is held in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide