About

In 1989, Lin Onus met master printmaker Shaike Snir at Port Jackson Press Australia, then the country’s oldest printmaking studio. Over the following years the two artists built an intimate report, spending their lunch breaks experimenting at boundaries of printmaking until Onus’s untimely death in 1996. He left these works in his wake – a series of unique works on paper, each imbued with a powerful presence with some reaching across generations, finding completion at the hands of Onus’s son, Tiriki Onus.

The artist as an individual genius was a myth that never resonated with Lin Onus. Of …