Adam Hill

Adam Hill


K9 vs bloodline on the breadline 2008 synthetic polymer paint on canvas


© and courtesy the artist Photograph: © Michael Myers 2011 

Artist statement

… This image is an urban payback.

This is from the heart – mine and from the heart of Redfern, an ode to TJ and all local mob who in the course of Redfern history have gone unrecognised officially while the officials become more official.

Redfern is the police punching bag of NSW, over equipped, undereducated, mono-cultured young guns asserting their authority en masse.

Drug controlled kids patrolled

Adults paroled and stories untold

In the words of Wire M C

“In the eyes of my people I see a legacy of pain a reflection of yesterday”

Adam Hill 2008


Adam Hill is a Dhungutti man and was born in Blacktown, Western Sydney in 1970. He originally studied Graphic Design but later took up painting without further formal training. Hill uses house paint to produce what he describes as “vast colourful landscapes with reminders of colonial impositions”. His work references the history of Aboriginal resistance in Australia.

Adam Hill, 2008, 25th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA), Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory