Joyce Cairns PRSA DEd(hc)
  • Introduction
  • Past & Present Work
    • Past Work
    • Present Work
  • Diary of a Painting
  • War Tourist
    • A First Response
    • The Bosnian Suite
    • The First World War
    • My Father's War
    • The Home Front
    • Germany and Poland
    • War Tourist Exhibition
    • Supporting Material >
      • Supporting Material Cont.
    • Book
    • Reviews
  • C.V.
    • C.V. cont.
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Painting Information

1) The Drums of War  
1993 Oil on Panel, 183 x 122 cm   

Collection of the Artist  
                                                 
2) The Deadly Wars  
1993 Oil on Panel, 213 x 244 cm
Perth Museum and Art Gallery



3) Irma 
1994-95 Oil on Panel, 213 x 244 cm    
Perth Museum and Art Gallery 

Collection of the Artist

The Bosnian Suite

THE BOSNIAN WAR, from 1992 to 1994 was the result of centuries of religious and ethnic tensions which erupted after Tito’s death. It occurred in an area which we considered to be almost European and it was shocking to think, while sipping a Bellini in Harry’s Bar in Venice, that just across the Adriatic genocide was once again occurring. No-one could have foreseen this almost fifty years ago when, at the end of the Second World War, the concentration camps were being liberated.

The tragedy unfolding through the media was there for all to witness and I was not alone in my distaste for the bumbling of the UN and NATO. This conflict, which resulted in the murder, rape and mutilation of so many Bosnian Muslims, could have been defused before it escalated out of control. Over two hundred thousand Bosnians were killed and several hundred thousand driven from their homes, many of which were then ransacked and destroyed. It would appear that there is still no effective international policy to deal with ethnic genocide, as witnessed in Rwanda, Kosovo and East Timor.
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